Expert: “Official Chisinau has already lost at elections in Gagauzia”

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“People of Gagauzia are ready to vote for anyone but Communists, protégés of Chisinau. Thus, the Gagauz people are declaring their will to live and develop independently of Moldova. One can say, by this. Gagauz people expressed their protest not just against Communists but against Chisinau authorities,” Executive Secretary, head of Interparliamentary Assembly of Member States of the Community for Democracy and Nation's Rights, political analyst Alexei Martynov said in an interview to a REGNUM correspondent commenting on results of the first voting at the elections of Gagauz bashkan (head) held on December 3.

As the expert believes, “the situation with its unsettled status is not unique, it is enough to have a look at the nearby Transdnestr.” “The current political map of Europe was made up after the so-called Big Treaty signed after World War II, one of guarantees and participants was the USSR. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Europe and the world in general were left without one of major guarantees of preserving the after-war status quo. The Big Treaty does not work any more. One can speak a lot about supremacy of the principle of territorial integrity and imperishability of borders in Europe, but in practice we see a picture contrary to the principle. One can pronounce ‘sweet’ constantly, but it will not become sweeter in one’s mouth. Gagauzia, Transdnestr, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Adjaria, Karabakh in the post-Soviet territory, the collapsed and still falling apart Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, Flandria and Vallonia, Northern Cyprus, Basques and Catalans, Bretons and Corsicans in Europe. All those problems have not been settled for many years. The basic principle of the Big Treaty, guaranty of which was existence of the Soviet Union, grounded on recognition of unsettled territorial and legal problems in Europe, but settlement of those issues was frozen and postponed. 50 and something years ago and after that, during existence of the Soviet Union it was possible. Today it is not. And even in the fat and wealthy Europe it is impossible now to preserve status quo about frozen conflicts. The old principles are not effective any more, so one should search for settlement of those issues without pushing each situation into a tinned can, but treating all those questions as a general European problem,” Alexei Martynov concluded.

Full text of the interview is available in Russian.