Romanian senator calls to restore "natural borders," including Moldovan, Ukrainian territories

He made this public statement at the celebrations organized by AUR in Iași on the occasion of the 165th anniversary of Romania's unification, according to the portal Adevarul.ro.

"In 1859, we took the first step towards sovereignty, but we were not really sovereign. We gained our sovereignty as a state only after the war for independence. And we fought for decades. This was the first step and it was the most important, the union of principalities. We could not do without it. But for several decades, we were scurrying between empires, trying to get this sovereignty," Tarziu said.

By "empires" he meant Russia and Western countries.

"Today, history again puts us in a context where great empires are at war with each other. We are, as always, at a crossroads, and we have to deal with these great empires to get our sovereignty or to preserve and complete it. We will not become truly sovereign until we reintegrate the Romanian state within its natural borders. Bessarabia must not be forgotten. It must return home. Northern Bukovina cannot be forgotten, Southern Bessarabia cannot be forgotten, the land of Herts, Transcarpathia, everything that was and is of the Romanian people must return to the same state. This is an ideal that we are not allowed to forget, ignore or remain silent about," Claudiu Tarziu emphasized.

The lands he mentioned in his speech are part of modern Moldova (Bessarabia) and Ukraine (Northern Bukovina, Southern Bessarabia, and Transcarpathia).

The Romanian edition of Newsweek, in turn, points out that Tarziu has previously expressed his willingness to cooperate with Russia in the name of Romania's alleged interests.

"I believe that there is a need to unfreeze relations between Romania and Russia. I recognize the need for successful cooperation between Romania and Russia, I am ready to support this, but only after Russia proves that it also wants all this," said the leader of the right-wing radicals in the Romanian Senate.