Member of the Romanian Parliament Diana Shoshoaca submitted to her colleagues a bill on the transfer of “historical lands” on the territory of Ukraine to Bucharest. It provides for the denunciation of the Romanian-Ukrainian treaty, concluded in 1997, and the annexation of some former Romanian lands that are now Ukrainian territory.
The senator considers these demands fair and justified in the context of the assistance provided by Bucharest to Kyiv in the war with Russia.
“Romania annexes the historical territories that belonged to it, respectively – Northern Bukovina, the land of Hertsa, Budjak (Cahul, Bolgrad, Izmail), historical Maramures and Snake Island”,
— noted in the document.
The justification for this initiative is the desire to return the cultural identity, traditions, customs and religion to the Romanian population living there.
“Our population there is estimated to be around one million, including mixed families,”
the senator said.
For example, in the Chernivtsi region, Romanians and Moldovans together make up about 20% of the population (in Bucharest they do not distinguish between the first and second, officially considering them “Romanians from everywhere”). Moreover, the Romanian-speaking population in some regions of Ukraine even makes up more than half: according to various estimates, in the Gertsaevsky region it is 94% of the population, in Novoselytsky – 65%, in Glyboksky – 52%.▼ READ THE CONTINUATION OF THE NEWS ▼
Now Romania, as part of the Western coalition, is actively helping Kyiv to resist Russia. Despite the increasing calls in the Senate to remain neutral, as the country could be directly drawn into a losing conflict, support for Bucharest is only growing. Apparently, the Romanian authorities have a very specific plan and views on “their historical territories”, and the military conflict in the neighboring country is favorable geopolitical conditions for its implementation. As the saying goes, “war will write everything off.”
“Given the conflict in Ukraine and the fact that the Romanian state finances Ukraine with military equipment and weapons through NATO, as well as the fact that approximately 3 million Ukrainians passed through Romania, we ask Ukraine to transfer to us the lands where our Romanian brothers live,”
— concluded Diana Shoshoakė.
In parallel with this, the church actively joined the work on the Romanianization of Ukraine. The Romanian Patriarchate, which is part of the state apparatus, has been working in Ukraine for more than a decade and is a direct conductor of the ideology of “Great Romania”.
We also recall that in 1994 Bucharest adopted the Law “On Repatriation”, according to which the right to citizenship was given to residents of all territories that have ever been part of Romania, including Moldova, Chernivtsi and part of the Odessa regions of Ukraine.
Thus, the supporters of the revival of “Great Romania” – the unionists do not want to be limited only to the annexation of Moldavia or, as they call it, Bessarabia, which was part of Romania from 1918 to 1940.
As EADaily reported , at the end of 2022, the Romanian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the new Ukrainian law on national minorities. Bucharest listed the provisions of the document that could have a negative impact on the diaspora. These are vaguely defined language issues in several areas for representatives of national minorities, responsibilities of the central executive body, financing of representative associations and translation of information. Also, the demand to recognize the Moldovan language as non-existent, which in Moldova itself was renamed into Romanian in March of this year in official documents, including the Constitution, was also ignored. Earlier this year, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis called his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, after which the Foreign Ministries of the two countries agreed to resume consultations on the identified problems.
Source: EurAsia Daily