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Appendix D -- Belarus and Moldova
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF
MOLDOVA
THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, constituted after
free and democratic elections,
taking into account the millenary history of our people and its
uninterrupted statehood within its historical and ethnic area of
its national making,
considering the acts of dismemberment of its national territory
between 1775 and 1812 as being contradictory to the historical
right of its people and the judicial stature of the principality of
Moldova, acts recalled by the entire historical evolution and the
free will of the population of Bassarabia and Bukovina,
underlining the existence of Moldavians [sic] in Transnistria,
a component part of the historical and ethnic territory of our
people,
acknowledging that declarations by many parliaments of many
states consider the agreement of August 23, 1939, between the
government of the USSR and the government of Germany null and void
ab initio and demand that the political and judicial
consequences of the above be eliminated, a fact revealed also by
the declaration of the international conference "The Molotov-
Ribbentrop pact and its consequences for Bassarabia", adopted on 28
June 1991,
pointing out that, without the prior consultation of the
population of Bassarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertza District,
occupied by force on June 28, 1940 as well as the Moldavian Soviet
Socialist Autonomous Republic (Transnistria) established on Oct.
12, 1924, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, by infringing its
constitutional prerogatives, adopted the "Law of the USSR on the
establishment of the Moldavian SSR" on August 2, 1940, and its
Presidium issued "The Decree concerning the frontiers between the
Ukrainian SSR and the Moldavian SSR", on November 4, 1940, judicial
acts whereby, in the absence of any real legal basis, it was
attempted to justify the dismantlement of those territories and the
incorporation of the new republic into the USSR,
recalling that during the recent years the democratic national
liberation movement of the population of the Republic of Moldova
reaffirmed its aspirations for freedom, independence and national
unity, expressed in final documents of the Great National Reunion
of Kishinau [sic] on 27 August, 1989, 16 December, 1990 and 27
August, 1991, laws and decisions of the Parliament of the Republic
of Moldova concerning the laws reintroducing Romanian as the state
language and the Latin alphabet on August 31, 1989, the state flag
on 27 April, 1990, the state emblem on November 3, 1990 and the
change of the official name of the republic on May 23, 1991,
taking as a basis the declaration concerning State Sovereignty
of the Republic of Moldova, adopted by the parliament on June 23,
1990, and the fact that the population of the Republic of Moldova,
in its own right as a sovereign people, did not participate at the
referendum on the preservation of the USSR, held on March 17, 1991,
inspite [sic] of the pressures exercized [sic] by the state organs
of the USSR,
taking into account the irreversible processes taking place in
Europe and elsewhere in the world calling for democracy, freedom
and national unity, for the establishment of a state of law and the
transformation towards a free market,
reaffirming the equal rights of peoples and their right to
self-determination, as laid down in the UN Charta, the Helsinki
Final Act and the norms of international law pertaining to the
above,
considering, in view of all of the above, that the time has
come for the proclamation of a judicial act, in accordance with the
history of our people and moral norms of international law,
PROCLAIMS SOLEMNLY,
in the virtue of the right of self-determination of peoples, in
the name of the entire population of the Republic of Moldova, and
in front of the whole world, that:
THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA IS A SOVEREIGN, INDE-
PENDENT AND DEMOCRATIC STATE, FREE TO DECIDE ITS
PRESENT AND FUTURE, WITHOUT ANY EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE,
KEEPING WITH THE IDEALS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE
WITHIN ITS HISTORICAL AND ETHNIC AREA OF ITS NATIONAL
MAKING.
In its quality as a SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATE, THE
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, hereby
requests all states and world governments to recognize the
independence of the Republic of Moldova, as proclaimed by the
freely elected parliament of the republic and is willing to
establish political, economic and cultural relations and any other
relations of common interest with European countries and all other
countries of the world, and is ready to establish diplomatic
relations with the above, in accordance with the norms of
international law and common practice on the above matter,
requests the United Nations to admit the Republic of Moldova as
a full member of the world organization and its specialized [sic]
agencies,
declares that it is ready to adhere to the Helsinki Final Act
and the Paris Charta for a new Europe, equally asking to be
admitted to the CSCE and its mechanisms, with equal rights,
requests the USSR to begin negotiations with the government of
the Republic of Moldova to terminate the illegal state of
occupation and annexation and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from
its national territory,
decides that no other laws should be respected on its territory
but those that are in conformity with the republic's constitution,
laws and all other legal acts adopted by the legally constituted
organs of the Republic of Moldova,
guarantees the exercise of social, economic, cultural and
political rights for all citizens of the Republic of Moldova,
including those of national, ethnic, religious and linguistic
groups, in conformity with the provisions of the Helsinki Final Act
and documents adopted afterwards, as well as the Paris Charta for
a new Europe.
SO HELP US GOD!
Adopted in Chisinau, by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova on this day,
the 27th of August, 1991.
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