{"id":1656,"date":"2019-09-28T23:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zdg.md\/eng\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2019-09-29T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:59:31","slug":"russias-14th-army-at-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/en\/russias-14th-army-at-the-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s 14th Army at the United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United Nations headquarters have been discussing some hot issues in recent days. The first and most important is the environmental crisis, lit by the heated speech of Greta Thunberg and her supporters, as well as by the controversial actions or criminal inaction of some state leaders on climate change and the future of the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way, virtually all countries are currently involved in the debate on waste and its impact on the environment, people and the future of humanity. Plastic, carbon emissions, pollutants of all kinds are on the debate agenda of the whole world. We are looking for new technologies and modern, non-toxic and life-saving solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the midst of these stirrings on the climate and the future, a person came to the U.N. rostrum with a special request: the official recognition of the Transnistrian region of Moldova as a separate state. This speech showed very well how toxic the climate of Moldovan-Russian relations is and how unsustainable their dialogue is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Russian Federation did not withdraw its armies from all the former Soviet republics, leaving military contingents and ammunition depots in the exact areas where separatist units appeared: Georgia, Armenia, Moldova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, Russia did not deny the fact that those armies were theirs and even made a commitment to withdraw the 14th Army from the Transnistrian region of Moldova in 1993, under an OSCE agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost 20 years have passed, but the Army is still there, and there is already an ECtHR decision (the Ila\u0219cu case) confirming its involvement in the 1992 war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, when the pro-European coalition with the Socialist Party gave birth to historically unique meetings in Chi\u0219in\u0103u with several Russian officials, they still declared that they recognize the territorial integrity of Moldova and that the Russian Army should be withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “the Russian Federation does not recognize the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova,\u201d explaining that the Russian Federation is involved in the peacekeeping mission but also in solving this problem. Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Nicu Popescu, during his visit to Moscow, even discussed a plan for the withdrawal of the army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n