The country’s administration congratulated the Moldovan citizens on the occasion of the Independence Day, calling on them to be united and to support the road to European integration. The officials laid flowers at the monument to Ruler Stephan the Great and at the Grieving Mother monument and took part in the show of national costumes and in the launch of the Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline, IPN reports.
In his congratulatory message, President Nicolae Timofti said he wants to believe that most of the Moldovans got rid of doubts and the nostalgia for the Soviet past. But instability covered again the region, while the anti-western propaganda rose to the same size as in the Soviet period. Moldova has yet another road, the European one. “Over the last few years, mainly the past year, we have taken determined steps that brought us closer to the desiderata stipulated in the Declaration of Independence. We associated ourselves with the European Union and got the right to travel freely on the continent and to trade freely in the European area,” stated Nicolae Timofti. He called on the people to take steps that would lead to unity and common good.
Head of Parliament Igor Corman congratulated the Moldovan people on the national holiday and called for unity for continuing the European course and the country’s modernization. He said the Moldovan people are peaceful and want to live in peace and harmony with all the countries. “We struggle against no one. We struggle for the future of our country. Our goal is to modernize the country and to have a better life, to live in freedom and welfare,” stated the Speaker.
In his message, Prime Minister Iurie Leanca said independence was wanted by hundreds of thousands of people who, joining the national liberation movement of the end of the 1980s, sought freedom and a new life. They did it in the name of the precursors who died far from the country, in the woods of Siberia and the steppes of Kazakhstan. But they did it mainly in the name of their children’s future. “Regretfully, I cannot say that it was easy for our country in these 23 years. In its short history, Moldova had to cope with a series of challenges and problems. In the last 20 years, the world has changed enormously. The European Union, which two decades ago was an almost abstract notion from the geography textbooks, became the greatest political construction on the continent and our neighbor. National unity is needed. Regardless of the place of residence, ethnicity or the spoken language, we are all citizens of Moldova and have the natural mission of contributing to the country’s prosperity,” reads the message.
