Calm down, they did not say exactly this – it is just some irony, describing the behavior of EU ambassadors in Moldova during the youth anti-communists protests in recent days. However the details below are just as interesting.
European Union diplomats are just doing nothing in Moldova – they are the symbol of EU’s impotent foreign policy in that part of the world, the symbol of nothing-doingness. Regardless of the efforts of some EU believers (Nicu Popescu with his very good article on how EU should intervene) everyone to the West seemed bored and uninterested. During the protests days EU ambassadors kept quiet, while Russia has made a number of harsh statements and actions infringing on Moldovan sovereignty (Russia MFA – “elections results are in the interest of the Moldovan and Russian people”, Foreign Minister Lavrov – something like ‘I don’t see any reason for repeated elections’, sending experts and equipment to help the government crackdown on youth protests, using Russian media to dispel the real reasons behind the protests – rigged elections – while promoting the false idea that protests were not numerous and were organized by a bunch of drugged, drunk, and overwhelmed by hatred radicals).
EU ambassadors to Moldova (with a tiny bit of exception) kept quiet when more and more facts about rigged elections came up, as they probably thought if they accept that then this could discredit OSCE and EU. Of course it will discredit if you will wait longer, since at the moment there is still a honorable way out, as the final ODIHR’s conclusions were not yet released. In due time, the OSCE ODIHR election observation mission issued a preliminary statement the first page of which (and the only page the majority reads) was very positive despite the numerous violations that affected the election results. That statement and the press-conference (also very laudatory) were used by Moldovan communists to claim “OSCE recognized and approved our elections”. The latter (EU) was quick Read the rest of this entry »
