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"Mr President, just over a year ago, Vlad Cubreacov visited my office in the European Parliament in Brussels. We talked about the conditions under which politics was conducted in Europe’s poorest country, Moldova. Vlad Cubreacov told me about assassination attempts to which he had earlier been subjected. As a Swede and as a Member of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels, I knew that here was a courageous man. He is prepared to stand up for the values of freedom, as well as for the rule of law, political pluralism and democracy –things which cost so little in our own countries but which, for him, cost so much.
About three weeks ago, I received a telephone call from Brussels, telling me that Vlad Cubreacov had disappeared. The person who had sat in my office and with whom I had talked warmly and companionably about politics had disappeared. We in the European Parliament, and not only those of us who are Christian Democrats belonging to his sister party, are deeply concerned about his fate. Moldova needs a new future. It is therefore deeply worrying that one of the country’s foremost opposition representatives in Parliament has disappeared. It is also a source of deep concern that the Communist government in Moldova has removed the political immunity of a large number of members of the Christian Democratic Party and that their political activities in Moldova may in the future be completely destroyed.
Moldova is a country in search of its cultural and political identity. In the struggle concerning whether the country is to be Western- or Russian-oriented, political activity must never lead to political disappearances and to people’s lives and health being threatened. We in the European Parliament are all working for a free and democratic Moldova."@en1
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