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We and Council of Europe

15 years of monitoring…

How long will monitor the Council of Europe the democratization process from Moldova? – is wondering in his book „I and Council of Europe” Daniel Verejanu, the young man who only at 10 met Catterine Lalumier, the Secretary General of Council of Eurpoe at that time, the first high-ranking official who held in his hands the first issue of Little Prince Magazine, first independent magazine, uncensored, first was published in the spring of 1993. Then, in 1997, Dan Verejanu had a meeting with Daniel Tarschys, the next General Secretary of Council of Europe that visited Moldova with the occasion of opening at Chisinat the Information Centre of Council of Europe. Dan Verejanu was already proud with being part of World Organization of Talented Children – first international NGO with general headquarters in Moldova. In 2000, during the first caravan from East to West – Caravan of Culture of Peace and Non Violence, that started from Chisinau and reached Council of Europe (Strasbourg) and UNESCO (Paris), the teenager from Moldova met Mr. Walter Schwimmer, the Secretary General of COuncil of Europe while World Organization of Talented Children obtained consultative and then participatory status, the Secretary General personally saluted the project of Dan Verejanu „Clubs of Council of Europe”.

For several years Dan Verejanu is wondering how long will last the monitoring of Council of Europe his country, as he is one of the first young men who made its destiny to promote the activity and politics of Council of Europe among his people. By his work and activity he had the chance to participate at many trainings, seminars, meetings and even at the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, – Dan Verejanu had wished so the monitoring of his country’s democratization to end long time ago, that would signified that in Moldova the democracy is at home.

But the events that occured in his sight at 7 April 2009, and in the next weeks and months – suggested him a sad answer: Moldova must be carefully monitored, seriously, not from the underground cities of Cricova or Mileştii Mici. In Moldova the citizen wasn’t seif in the last decade. And is not seif even nowadays…

Reporter MP