Ukrainian MP: Romania has its eye on Ukraine

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“If such statements are made by foreign politicians, the Ukrainian foreign ministry should, no doubt, react to them. I can only imagine, what reaction of Romania would be, if something like this was said by our politicians in a Bucharest university,” Ukrainian MP, leader of the Ukrainian Freedom Unity Oleg Tyagnybok told a REGNUM correspondent about statements of the Romanian president about the past of Bukovina.

On February 3, Romanian President Traian Basescu stated at a meeting with students and staff of Chernigov University (Ukraine) and members of the local Romanian community that Chernovtsy and Kishinev are two cities that Romanians like most of all, as a part of the Romanian soul is left there. In the end of his speech in the university’s Marble Hall, Basescu said: “I remember what happened in this hall…” which can be treated ambiguously. In the adjacent Blue Hall of the university in June 2003, intergovernmental treaty between Romania and Ukraine was signed. But on November 28, 1918, in the Marble Hall, the Romanian Unifying Congress took place that announced (without taking into consideration the opinion of the native Ukrainian population) unification of Romania and Bukovina for ever.

According to Tyagnybok, in this situation, Ukraine “behaved as a dweeb in the international relations.” “If Ukraine has reacted to the point, its foreign visitors would have acted in other way. Here the law of the jungle rules: the strongest man wins. And when someone feels weakness of our mind, one can dare to do things that humiliate our national pride. Well, such statements are made not without purpose. I have no doubts, that Romania has its eye if not on territorial influence on Ukraine, then at least on moral influence on its citizens,” concluded Tyagnybok.