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__NOTOC__ The Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova () was a document adopted on 27 August 1991 by the
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. ...
following the failure of the August coup attempt.


Background

The document claims "millennial history" and "uninterrupted statehood" within historic and ethnic borders and refers to the official language as " Romanian". This founding act of the Republic of Moldova is celebrated as the National Day or
Independence Day An independence day is an annual event memorialization, commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or Sovereign state, statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or after the end of a milit ...
. The original document that was approved and signed by 278 parliamentary deputies in 1991 was burned during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests, but an identical document was restored in 2010.


Controversy

The Moldovan Declaration of Independence clearly and directly claims Moldovan
sovereignty Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within a state as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body or institution that has the ultimate au ...
over the territory of
Transnistria Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a Landlocked country, landlocked Transnistria conflict#International recognition of Transnistria, breakaway state internationally recogn ...
as "a component part of the historical and ethnic territory of our people". This caused controversy, since that region had declared independence from the Moldovan SSR in 1990 and formed the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (PMSSR); however, the PMSSR had not been recognised as a legitimate Soviet republic by either the Soviet Union or the Moldovan SSR.


See also

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Independence Day (Republic of Moldova) The Independence Day () is the national day of Moldova commemorating the adoption of the Moldovan Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union on 27 August 1991. Background The 1990 Moldavian Supreme Soviet ...
*
Dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...
* Disputed status of Transnistria * Transnistrian Declaration of Independence


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Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova
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Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...
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