CHISINAU. June 28 (Interfax) - Moldova's ruling Alliance for European Integration has failed to convince Acting President Mihai Ghimpu that the ordinance making June 28 the Soviet Occupation Day must be repealed.
Three members of the quadripartite alliance failed to cancel a special parliament meeting. The meeting is planned for Monday to hear a report of the commission investigating crimes of the communist totalitarian regime in Moldova.
The alliance leaders, including Ghimpu, convened at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time. Ghimpu refused to attend the meeting on Sunday. He said it was necessary to observe the mournful day in the history of Moldova, which, in Ghimpu's words, was occupied by the former Soviet Union on June 28, 1940.
Leaders of three alliance parties elaborated a common position on Saturday but refused to publish it until they met with the acting president.
A number of citizens repressed in the Soviet period supported the acting president's ordinance near the parliament building on Monday. They were holding a banner, which read, "Stalin and Russian People Brought us Freedom - They Took us to Siberia."