Unification with Moldova should become Romania's next big project - President Basescu
CHISINAU. Nov 28 (Interfax) - The possible unification of Romania and Moldova should become a major project for Bucharest, Romanian President Traian Basescu said.
"I am convinced that if "unionist winds" start to blow in Moldova, Romania will always be ready for that. Accession to NATO was once a fundamental project for Romania. There was also another one - accession to the EU. I think that the third fundamental project should become our unification with Moldova. There can be no doubt about that," Basescu told Romania's TVR-1 national television station on Wednesday evening.
"It is a realistic project that Bucharest is strong enough to put into practice," he said.
"I do not even take politicians, their views and ambitions into account. The people who want to be together will not say no. All of my actions concerning Moldova are linked with the idea of our possible unification. I know that the time is not right now. But this will happen because human blood is not water," the Romanian president said.
When asked whether he had discussed this issue with Romanian diplomats, Basescu said that it was his duty to set the tone in politics.
"This is by task today. But do you really think that Mr. Corlatean [Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean] is opposed to our unification with Moldova?!" he said.
The Romanian president said during a visit to Moldova's capital, Chisinau, in July that after his term in office expired, he would apply for Moldovan citizenship in order to be able to "campaign for Moldova's unification with Romania in Chisinau."