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Activity of the President on April 16 – May 1, 2009

Decrees

The state commission in charge with elucidating the causes, conditions and consequences of the April 7–8, 2009 events was created under a presidential decree and Communist parliamentarian Vladimir Turcan was nominated to head it. The commission is made of members of Parliament, acting Government, representatives of the academia, student organisations and the media. Under the decree, the conclusions of the commission will be released before May 5, 2009 and will be considered at a parliamentary sitting.

Note by ADEPT: The conclusions were not released so far.

Moldova’s president has signed a decree concerning the convocation of the newly-elected Parliament on May 5, 2009.

Some Moldovan ambassadors were nominated under presidential decrees:

The Honour Order was awarded to Marc Tkaciuk, former presidential adviser for political affairs, and Fiodor Capatina, chairman of the Public Association Chernobyl Society in Moldova.

The Labour Glory Order was awarded to:

The Civic Merit medal was awarded to:

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Consequences of the April 7, 2009 protests

Moldovan president convoked a sitting on April 15, with participation of heads of the Parliament, Government, decision makers of some security and law institutions, and discussed the situation after the violent protests held in Chisinau downtown on April 7. The chief of state reported conversations with European and international officials focussed on violent demonstrations in Chisinau, consequences of the unrest and actions taken by Moldovan authorities to overcome them. Vladimir Voronin instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the parliamentary commission for foreign policy and European integration to use all available possibilities in order to present the real state of things in Moldova to the EU heads of state, European and international institutions, OSCE and PACE above all. The Interior Ministry, Prosecutor-General’s Office and other law enforcement bodies were asked to work out an ample and in-depth analysis of the April 6–7 developments in Chisinau, stages of organisation and conduct of the events concerned. As well, the chief of state instructed competent authorities to work out and implement adequate actions aimed to prevent such situations in future and annihilate causes and conditions for anti-state activities, massive and criminal disturbances.

On April 15 evening, the chief of state addressed the population on television, signalling the existence of some forces capable to sacrifice democratic institutions, respect for law, Moldova’s European option and statehood for the sake of their ambitions to take the political power. Vladimir Voronin accused the Romanian leadership of biased and inopportune actions against Moldova, but acknowledged the common history and the fact that the two nations speak the same language, despite the different names. At the same time, the chief of state invited all participants in the political process to resume a civilised dialogue and demanded law enforcement bodies “to begin the complete amnesty and cease any charges against participants in the street protests,” except for representatives of the underworld and recidivists.

Working, information and planning sittings

Although the mandate of chief of state is formally over, the Moldovan president continued to convoke sittings which considered previous actions and set new tasks of the Government for the next period, inclusively annual. In particular, he convoked sittings on:

April 1–15, 2009 May 2–31, 2009