# Romania's Love of Peace

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/romania-love-peace/
- Published: 1924-06-26T18:40:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T01:49:33+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/miraliubstva-rumynii.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/mirolyubie-rumynii.md

> The Romanian prime minister declared that his country wants normal relations with the Soviets, but only on condition that its rights to Bessarabia are recognized. The Soviets reply by demanding a plebiscite there.

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In reply to interpellations, the Romanian prime minister declared in parliament that Romania ardently desires peace and the restoration of normal relations with the U.S.S.R., demanding of the latter "only the recognition of Romania's indisputable rights to Bessarabia"… As is known, the U.S.S.R. has wholly renounced the "historical rights of Russia" to Bessarabia, but it renounced them not at all in favor of Romania, which has no rights whatever to that land, but in favor of the indisputable rights of the population of Bessarabia and the great principle of the self-determination of peoples. For that reason the U.S.S.R. puts forward an unyielding demand for a free plebiscite in Bessarabia and, as one may judge from the statement of the head of the U.S.S.R.'s policy, will not retreat from this demand.