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OSCE Mission to Moldova rejects "staff" remarks in newspaper
CHISINAU 3 October 2002
CHISINAU, 2 October, 2002 - The OSCE Mission to Moldova has expressed its deep dismay at a report which appeared in the 25 September edition of the newspaper Moldova Suverna.
In an article entitled 'Istoria Moldovei ramine istoria Statului Moldovenesc', by Viorica Bivol, reporting on a Council of Europe-sponsored seminar on the teaching of history in Moldova, the journalist attributes a generic statement about the seminar to an OSCE Mission Member. Using a typographical device, the journalist then appears to attribute to that staff member certain derogatory comments about the opposition parties and their positions on the subject of history teaching in Moldova.
The OSCE Mission to Moldova wishes to make it clear that neither in the seminar nor afterwards, did the Mission Member make any such statements. Nor did he at any time discuss the seminar with journalists. Therefore, attributing statements to him and thus to the Mission is nothing less than a falsification of news.
The OSCE Mission to Moldova expresses its profound concern over efforts to discredit any political parties or their positions on history teaching in Moldova in its name and categorically rejects all such attributions.
In an article entitled 'Istoria Moldovei ramine istoria Statului Moldovenesc', by Viorica Bivol, reporting on a Council of Europe-sponsored seminar on the teaching of history in Moldova, the journalist attributes a generic statement about the seminar to an OSCE Mission Member. Using a typographical device, the journalist then appears to attribute to that staff member certain derogatory comments about the opposition parties and their positions on the subject of history teaching in Moldova.
The OSCE Mission to Moldova wishes to make it clear that neither in the seminar nor afterwards, did the Mission Member make any such statements. Nor did he at any time discuss the seminar with journalists. Therefore, attributing statements to him and thus to the Mission is nothing less than a falsification of news.
The OSCE Mission to Moldova expresses its profound concern over efforts to discredit any political parties or their positions on history teaching in Moldova in its name and categorically rejects all such attributions.