| Moldovan Declaration of Independence | |
|---|---|
| Created | August 1991 |
| Ratified | 27 August 1991 |
| Location | Parliament of Moldova (originally destroyed during theApril 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests but later recovered) |
| Signatories | PresidentMircea Snegur |
| Purpose | Declaration of independence Illegitimize theMolotov–Ribbentrop Pact |
TheDeclaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova (Romanian:Declarația de independență a Republicii Moldova) was a document adopted on 27 August 1991 by theParliament of the Republic of Moldova following the failure of theAugust coup attempt.
The document claims "millennial history" and "uninterrupted statehood" within historic and ethnic borders and refers to the official language as "Romanian".[1] This founding act of theRepublic of Moldova is celebrated as the National Day orIndependence Day.
The original document that was approved and signed by 278 parliamentary deputies in 1991 was burned during theApril 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests, but an identical document was restored in 2010.[2][3]
The Moldovan Declaration of Independence clearly and directly claims Moldovansovereignty over the territory ofTransnistria as "a component part of the historical and ethnic territory of our people". This caused controversy, since that region had declared independence from the Moldovan SSR in 1990 and formed thePridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR); however, the PMSSR had not been recognised as a legitimate Soviet republic by either the Soviet Union or the Moldovan SSR.
Independence declarations from the Soviet Union  | |
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| Declarations of independence | |
| Declarations of sovereignty | |
Note:Autonomies of otherunion republics are written incursive | |
