Voronin Has Sent a Message to Zelensky after Ukraine Ambassador Statements

Vladimir Voronin “like hundreds of thousands of Moldovan citizens, was “deeply offended” by the statements of Ukrainian Ambassador to Romania Oleksandr Bankov, who denied the existence of the Moldavian language, believing that it “was the legacy of the USSR”. Voronin addressed to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, recalling that “the task of any ambassador is to pursue the interests of his own state, and not to propagate dubious theories and deepen the problems of foreign countries”, infotag.md reports. “Perhaps after staying on the territory of Romania, Ukrainian Ambassador is tired of the Ukrainian Northern Bukovina or the Ukrainian Southern Bessarabia? H.E. Ambassador, being a diplomat working in a neighboring state of Moldova, should know that the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova establishes the status of the state language the Moldovan language. There are many politicians in Moldova who share the position of Mr. Bankov. Nevertheless, none of them dared to encroach on changing the Constitution regarding the name of the official language of the Republic of Moldova. And this did not happen for one simple reason: despite the 30-year-old Romanian propaganda, no less intense than in Northern Bukovina of the sovereign Ukrainian state, the overwhelming majority of the population of Moldova (more than 76%) consider Moldavian to be their native language,” said Voronin. He recalled that “international rules and practices establish the only approach to national and linguistic identity - self-definition of a nation, and neither linguists, nor politicians, nor historians, nor writers, nor foreign diplomats can and have the right to “calling the shots” about its self-definition”. “The ambassador of Ukraine to Romania, with his injudicious statement, humiliated hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who consider themselves to be Moldovans, and Moldovan as their native language. As for the “soviet heritage,” which allegedly “prevents” Moldovans from becoming Romanians and speaking Romanian rather than Moldavian, it seems that Mr. Bankov would not be happy if someone from foreign diplomats suddenly began to call the beautiful Ukrainian language “Little Russian,” said Voronin. He expressed confidence that “such statements do not honor the diplomatic service of Ukraine and do not correspond to the official position of the country’s leadership.” Point