Under him, the war began in Transnistria: the first president of Moldova, Mircea Snegur, died

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In Moldova, the first President of Moldova, Mircea Snegur, died at the age of 83. He led the country from 1990 to 1997.

Politics died late in the evening of September 13, 2023. The Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova in 1991-1992, Constantin Tampiza, spoke about the loss.

What is known about the death of the first president of Moldova

This is sad, brother, this is sad… On September 13 at 23:30, the President of the Republic of Moldova Mircea Snegur surrendered in the fight against an incurable disease. May God forgive him and rest him with the righteous,” wrote the former Moldovan prime minister.

The current president of Moldova expressed condolences to the family and everyone who knew Snegur. Maia Sandu ordered the funeral of Mircea Snegur with state honors. In addition, September 16 was declared a day of national mourning.

“Mr. Snegur lived in historical times and played an important role in promoting the independence, freedom and sovereignty of Moldova. Mircea Snegur will remain in our memory as the person who stood at the cradle of Moldova’s Independence,” Sandu said.

Sandu showed a photo from the inauguration of Mircea Snegur

It should be noted that it was under the first president of Moldova that the war began in Transnistria. This happened after the region officially declared sovereignty from Moldova. It is known that Snegur was a strong supporter of the liquidation of the self-proclaimed autonomy of Transnistria, but the problem was not solved.

Recalling in an interview in January 2023 what he failed to do as President of Moldova, Mircea Snegur replied: “The deepest wound is still the failure to solve the Transnistrian problem.” After all, after Yeltsin and Snegur signed an agreement on the principles of resolving the armed conflict in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova in 1992, they did not finally resolve the status of Transnistria. So the conflict is frozen.

It is worth noting that Yeltsin and Snegur signed documents in the presence of the self-proclaimed leader of the “Transnistrian Moldavian Republic” on September 2, 1990, Igor Smirnov.

What is known about Mircea Snegur

What is known about Mircea Snegur

• Mircea Snegur was born in the Moldovan village of Trifenesti on January 17, 1940. Then he was educated as an agronomist at the Chisinau Agricultural Institute, and was a candidate of agricultural sciences.
• Initially he worked in agriculture, was a manager in the northern regions of Moldova.
• He was in the regiment during 1989 – 1990 Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR. From 1990 to 1996, he was the President of Moldova and a supporter of the bill granting official status to the Romanian language.
• Mircea Snegur, in an interview with Radio Liberty in 2022, compared Transnistria to the war in Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine is now threatened by a war with Russia, similar to the one that occurred in Transnistria in 1992. But the politician noted that they were talking about a war on a much larger scale.