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Moldovan Declaration of Independence

1991 Moldovan legal document

Summary

1991 Moldovan legal document

Field	Value
document_name	Moldovan Declaration of Independence
date_created	August 1991
date_ratified	27 August 1991
location_of_document	Parliament of Moldova (originally destroyed during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests but later recovered)
signers	President Mircea Snegur
purpose	Declaration of independence
Illegitimize the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

Illegitimize the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact NOTOC The Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova () was a document adopted on 27 August 1991 by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova following the failure of the August coup attempt.

Background

The document claims "millennial history" and "uninterrupted statehood" within historic and ethnic borders and refers to the official language as "Romanian". This founding act of the Republic of Moldova is celebrated as the National Day or Independence Day.

2001 Moldovan stamp marking the 10th Anniversary of the declaration of independence

The original document that was approved and signed by 278 parliamentary deputies in 1991 was burned during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests, but an identical document was restored in 2010.

Controversy

The Moldovan Declaration of Independence clearly and directly claims Moldovan sovereignty over the territory of Transnistria as "a component part of the historical and ethnic territory of our people". This caused controversy, since that region had declared independence from the Moldovan SSR in 1990 and formed the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR); however, the PMSSR had not been recognised as a legitimate Soviet republic by either the Soviet Union or the Moldovan SSR.

References

"Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova.".
[http://metroeireann.com/article/moldova-restores-declaration-of,2554 Moldova restores Declaration of Independence] {{webarchive. link. (2014-08-08)
"Text of Moldova's Declaration of Independence recovered".

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