Loading ...Romania will address the ECHR with respect to limiting the right to the free movement of the Romanian citizens in the Republic of Moldova and it will also call on the European Parliament for an inquiry, President Traian Basescu told the public television TVR late on Tuesday.
'You can be sure there was no joke in the speech I delivered (to the Parliament – editor's note) when I said we'll notify the international courts. The restriction of the right to the free movement of the Romanian citizens, the violation of the agreement between the EU and Moldova will be one of the topics we'll put forward to the ECHR.
The Romanian citizens were deprived of a right they had, the Romanian citizens were searched, the Romanian journalists were deprived of the right to do their job', Basescu stressed.
He said Romania will notify the ECHR with respect to the Moldovan authorities' attitude towards the Romanian journalists, since 'what happened to the Romanian journalists in the Republic of Moldova – they were arrested, detained, searched, some were denied entry to the Republic of Moldova – are things we are going to present the ECHR'.
The president also said Romania was likely to ask for an inquiry by the European Parliament. 'Maybe it is too early and not too political to speak of the second move we plan to make. We want a European inquiry by the European Parliament, where the foreign policy commission or the plenary sitting can make such a decision. We are trying to carry out both alternatives and I hope tomorrow I'll manage to hold the exploratory talks', he added.
Basescu pointed out the main goal of Romania is that the abuse be found against the Romanian citizens or those who have double citizenship; the issue in Chisinau is to certify the seats of the parliamentarians who have double citizenship – Romanian and Moldovan, he underscored.
'This is another reason why we'll go to the ECHR. The Romanian citizenship is not a second rate citizenship. It is European citizenship. The citizens who have such citizenship should not be discriminated', he said.
Basescu added there is not yet a full evaluation of what is going on in the neighbouring country.'
At that meeting to which I invited the foreign minister and the prime minister, the day after the Chisinau events, one of the things we established as being a priority was that we be informed about how many citizens who have Romanian citizenship are there in the jails of the Interior Ministry in Chisinau. Not even today have we got an answer from the Chisinau authorities', Basescu said.
The president stressed that Romania's attitude towards the Republic of Moldova was temperate in the past as well, when two clerics and two diplomats had been expelled.
'There are attitudes and actions of the Chisinau Government to which we did not respond. It takes the acceptance of both sides to build a curtain. Can you image how things would have got complicated if we had matched our answer and had expelled the Moldovan ambassador, if we had introduced a visa tax for the Moldovan citizens seeking to come to Romania', Basescu said.
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