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Activity of the President on May 31 – June 13, 2004

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Stability and Security Pact for the Republic of Moldova

On 1 June 2004 President Vladimir Voronin summoned a meeting of foreign ambassadors accredited in Chisinau, to which he proposed a Stability and Security Pact for the Republic of Moldova. At the start of his address, the Head of State enumerated a number of actions taken by the Moldovan authorities with a view to create “an area of stability, transparency and security, an area which is of interest both to Moldova’s direct neighbours — Romania and Ukraine, and indirect neighbours — the European Union, the US and the Russian Federation”, and called upon the states and organisations in question to support the proposed Pact. President Voronin reiterated Moldova’s commitment to the principle of “strategic neutrality” and stressed that Moldova “advances on its road to European integration and at the same time maintains an efficient and functional system of bilateral and multilateral relations within the CIS”. In the same context, Voronin stressed that “any attempt to break this natural balance, including to give up the principles of poly-ethnicity and the ones of a federal solution of the Transmission conflict may provoke crises and stagnation”.

Expressing his full confidence that “an open and coordinated position of Romania, Ukraine, the European Union, the US and the Russian Federation in a number of major issues related to Moldova may constitute the cornerstone of long term stability in this area”, President Voronin called upon the said actors to seek a multilateral compromise on the following issues:

  1. Confirm their support for Moldova’s efforts towards territorial integration within the internationally recognised borders;
  2. Confirm their support for creating the conditions to guarantee the participation of the entire society in the free democratic process throughout Moldova;
  3. Recognise the fact that cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity is a fundamental value of the poly-ethnic state, which is the Republic of Moldova, and confirm support for the creation of an atmosphere of tolerance and interethnic dialogue, poly-ethnicity and ethno-cultural diversity;
  4. Recognise the fact that the creation of a single defence space of the Republic of Moldova is only possible on the basis of developing and consolidating the permanent neutrality of the Republic of Moldova. Moldova would like all parties to express their availability to guarantee the strategic neutrality of Moldova;
  5. Recognise the fact that the most acceptable basis for the final resolution of the Transnistrian issue are the principles of federal state organisation of the Republic of Moldova, to be envisioned in the Constitution, and that these principles alone represent a viable mechanism to ensure internal guarantees for stability in Moldova.

The Moldovan President proposed that this multilateral compromise be reached in the result of a political conference of the heads of foreign affairs departments of the states and organisations concerned and that the Pact has the status of a document of international law. The text of the draft was sent to these states and organisations for consideration. Some of the first reactions to the presidential initiative have denoted a certain degree of confusion (Romania), whereas others have implied that the idea of such a pact is interesting (US, Poland) and even deserves to be supported (Slovenia).

Despite the numerous criticisms to the initiative by the parliamentary opposition, extra parliamentary parties and mass media and civil society representatives — criticisms that invoke the electoral context in which this initiative has been made, as well as its subversive and extravagant character, the will of the current government to undermine the natural course towards European integration of Moldova, and the defiant attitude towards Moldova’s main partners — Vladimir Voronin reaffirmed, at last week’s meeting with the group of ambassadors accredited at the OSCE on a visit to Chisinau, that the signature of the pact will have positive implications for the development of Moldova.

Legislative proposals

As a follow up to the presidential decree of 19 March 2004 on the creation of the informational society in the Republic of Moldova, as well as the promises made to the International Conference “BIT+”, Vladimir Voronin submitted to Parliament, as a legislative initiative, the draft law on the electronic document and the digital signature. According to the press service of the Presidency, the draft provides for the legal conditions for the utilisation of the electronic document and the digital signature, and establishes the mechanism for guaranteeing, through special cryptographic methods, the security of this type of signature used in the process of electronic circulation of documents.

Another draft law submitted to Parliament for consideration by the Head of State has been the one on micro-finance organisations. The document was developed with a view to implement the State Programme for the support of small businesses in 2002–2005, and is regarded as likely to contribute to the creation of the legal framework necessary for the founding and functioning of micro-finance institutions in Moldova, the development of micro-finance market and the provision of some legal and political guarantees for the foreign investors. According to the Presidential press service, the major objective of this draft is to increase access of small businesses and population to financial resources.

May 10–30, 2004 June 14–27, 2004