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"Thank you Mr President. As we know, on 6 March Parliamentary elections will take place in Moldova, which I hope to be able to observe as a member of the European Parliament's delegation of election observers. However, today I would also like to express my concern about the pre-election situation in Moldova. The situation in Moldova is complicated above all because to this day the Transnistria problem remains unresolved. Neither the international community nor even the European Union have yet been able to persuade Russia to keep its 1999 Istanbul Commitments and withdraw its army from Transnistria. Transnistria has become a region involved in money laundering, and the manufacturing and illegal export of arms. This in turn, either directly or indirectly, serves organised crime and international terrorism. Today, Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner expressed concern about the environment of the forthcoming elections, about the influence which some have been trying to exert from outside for some time. Yesterday Moldova's Prime Minister Tarlev spoke about this at a press conference in Brussels and today the world's news agencies are speaking about it. In conclusion I would like to express the hope, that the European Union and international community will not be impotent and that the European Union will not only observe the elections and monitor the situation, but will take concrete steps to help Moldova's democratic forces and will not allow the situation in that country to become unstable. Thank you."@en1
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