Moldova's acting president advocates official status for Romanian
The constitutional commission will discuss the Romanian language issue in order to put an end to this delicate problem, which has been created artificially in Moldova, the acting president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, told a news conference on 1 December.
He regretted the fact that politicians failed to solve this issue back in the 1990s. "Now it is important to put an end to this issue as soon as possible so that we can focus on economic problems and European integration. The fact that we made a political issue out of our language and history was a huge mistake," Ghimpu said. He noted that he had never doubted his identity and nothing had changed since he came to power. "My whole life, I knew what language I was speaking, perhaps, except for the first months of life. I have always spoken Romanian and used the Latin script. I cannot say that I am a Dacian Slav since I am a Dacian Roman," Ghimpu said. He also said that he has always marked 1 December [Romania's national day] as the holiday of all Romanians and "this should not put representatives of other nationalities residing in Moldova on their guard". "I do not understand why other nationalities get offended since we respect their holidays. I have recently participated in a festival of nationalities and congratulated everybody. I can see no problem. Speculation does not come from ordinary people but from politicians who want to take advantage of identity discord in society," Ghimpu said.
The Communist government, which had been in power in Moldova from 2001 until the latest election in 2009, has insisted that Moldovan is a separate language, different from Romanian.
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