Foreign Ministry: Origin of WikiLeaks report about Ukraine and Transdniestria is dubious

KYIV, March 31. UKRINFORM. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said that it is inexpedient to comment at the official level on WikiLeaks' materials published by the Ukrainian media about Moldova's alleged readiness to give Transdniestria to Ukraine and join Romania to speed up its EU integration, the director of the ministry's information policy department, Oleh Voloshyn, has told an UKRINFORM reporter.

"It is a very questionable provocation against the world's diplomatic services. As for the problems in Transdniestria and the situation in Moldova, I want to remind you that the leadership of the state and the Foreign Ministry has repeatedly stressed that Ukraine stands for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova," he said.

In his opinion, any change of borders, even if "someone seems it to be a step in favor of Ukraine, is, in fact, an absolutely illusory idea." "This is our fundamental position. We support the inviolability of borders and territorial sovereignty of European countries, particularly Moldova," Voloshyn said. He noted that Ukraine, in the issues of preserving the current borders, proceeds from the fact that the change of borders could lead to a negative scenario, "and it is one of the main reasons why it does not recognize the independence of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia."

As reported, a 2007 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, leaked by WikiLeaks, notes that Ukrainians were speaking of a theory according to which politicians in Moldova promoting a pro-European policy were silently supporting Moldova's entry to the EU through Romania, with a possibility that Moldova on the right bank of the Dniester River eventually joins Romania, while the left bank (Transdniestria) is given Ukraine. Instead of being absorbed by Romania, Moldova on the right bank of the Dniester would unite with Romania in a supra-national structure called "Romanova."

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