site.btaVazrazhdane Attacks Bulgarian Ambassador to Moldova, Claims She "Behaves Like National Traitor"

The Bulgarian Ambassador to Moldova is not defending Bulgaria’s national interests, Vazrazhdane said in a declaration on Friday. Speaking from the parliamentary rostrum, the Vazrazhdane Floor Leader Kostadin Kostadinov said that they had prepared a declaration aimed at defending the rights of Bulgarians in Moldova, and that it had been discussed at a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons.

“The reason for the declaration is that for yet another year the Moldovan state, and especially the current ruling regime of Maia Sandu, is trying to remove the cultural autonomy of the Taraclia district in Moldova, which is predominantly populated by Bulgarians, who are the indigenous population of that area,” Kostadinov said.

“Meanwhile, however, information from the Council of Chairpersons apparently became public and on the same day our Ambassador to Moldova, Maya Dobreva, sent an extremely outrageous telegram to the Foreign Policy Committee, the Committee on Policies for Bulgarians Abroad, the Foreign Ministry, the President's administration, and all institutions in any way involved with this issue,” Kostadinov said. “In this telegram, Dobreva allows herself, in the crudest and most vulgar manner, to trample on the Bulgarian national interest by defending entirely and exclusively the Moldovan point of view, and the telegram contains poorly disguised threats towards representatives of the Bulgarian community in Moldova,” argued the leader of Vazrazhdane. “The position of the Embassy is that the adoption of a declaration by the National Assembly in support of the Bulgarian community is inappropriate,” he added.

Vazrazhdane also pointed to a “strange symbiosis and very good synchronisation between the Bulgarian Ambassador to Moldova and the Moldovan Ambassador to Bulgaria”. “Yesterday the Moldovan Ambassador suddenly appeared in the National Assembly and began actively holding talks with representatives of the political forces in Parliament, mainly meeting with representatives of GERB. He also requested a meeting with us, which we refused. I do not know what was discussed in those meetings, but at some point the positions of both GERB and the other political forces apparently changed sharply and, although a meeting of the Foreign Policy Committee was supposed to take place on Wednesday, it did not,” Kostadinov said, adding that on Thursday the Committee on Bulgarians Abroad also did not meet because the quorum was boycotted by half of the parties.

“The reform envisaged by the Moldovan government is to merge the municipality and the district in Taraclia and, instead of having a separate district and separate municipalities and mayoralties, everything will be combined into one. In other words, the Taraclia district will be dismantled,” Kostadinov argued. “What will happen is that there will begin a gradual disintegration of the Bulgarian administration in the Taraclia district and it will slowly be dissolved,” he added.

The Vazrazhdane leader said that “our ambassador to Moldova behaves like a national traitor and an agent of foreign states.”

Kostadinov said that a public discussion of the reform in Taraclia will be held on March 17, and therefore called on the Bulgarians there to attend and rise up as one.