President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that a union with Moldova is possible, but not in the near future. "A union with Bessarabia is possible, but at the same time I do not think that it is possible in the near future," the president said at the debate "Politics: From Theory to Practice," held at BCU.

He pointed out that three conditions must be met for the unification with Moldova.

"Romanians to want it, the people of Moldova to want it, neither Romania nor Moldova must no longer have disputes on their territory that are under international jurisdiction," said Iohannis.

The head of state said that if these conditions are met, "it is likely that such a process will start and will be followed by success."

"Without the minimum conditions it stays a nice goal and not a political project," added Iohannis.

He claimed that unionist movements grew away Moldovans from Romania.

"There were many movements, I too have called quasi-unionist, which claimed that want to help the unification, but in reality we now see, at elections, that many of them and many actions did nothing else than send away Moldovans from Romania, have only served to annoy the Moldovans. Here we must consider the economic side, said a Moldovan politician in a discussion we had, due to the policy of association with the EU and the economic situation happens that many Moldovans who work in the area of Russia get home after becoming unemployed. They get home and wait to find a job, find opportunities, but we here have contributed very little," added the head of state.

He reminded that Romania and Moldova have a very special relationship, but pointed out that our country has helped people many times.

"We analyzed together with those who know what happened in the relationship between Romania and Moldova in 90s onwards, what was done well, what was done wrong. We concluded that our intervention in Moldova was at least ineffective, to not use other words, because some politicians say that I do not appreciate their work. (...) Very often, instead of helping Moldova, institutions, parties, we helped people in Moldova, and sometimes those people had good results, but sometimes they led some ridiculous political projects. We concluded that we must change things. It is wrong to help some people and it is important to help organizations, institutions. It does not make sense to help a person or group to obtain something that maybe for Moldovans is not relevant, but for us it is," said Iohannis.

Source: Agerpres