14
Mar
2024
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Return of Romanian national treasure illegally appropriated by Russia (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, even though I had the feeling that you were wrong, the subject was not Ukraine, but Romania's treasure. In the last hundred years, Russia has deprived Romanians of three dear things and these are: freedom, by imposing a regime of communist dictatorship after the Second World War, the Romanian treasury stored in Moscow for storage and return and never returned and the third thing: Bessarabia land, torn from the body of Romania by the criminal pact Ribbentrop-Molotov. Things have evolved. In connection with the three thefts, the Romanians are fighting a continuous battle to regain what is theirs. Thus, the Romanians regained their freedom through the December Revolution ’89. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact fades its effects by starting the process of Moldova's accession to the European Union, and by what we do today it means that the European Parliament becomes part of Romania's struggle to recover the treasure. Thank you to Parliament, thank you to the institutions of the European Union, to which today's resolution assigns tasks of involvement in the resolution of the dispute.