Independence of Moldova

Moldova became fully independent from the Soviet Union that December, and joined the United Nations three months later.

On 21 December of the same year, Moldova, along with most of the former Soviet republics, signed the constitutive act that formed the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Three months later, on 2 March 1992, the country gained formal recognition as an independent state at the United Nations.

The document claims "millenary history" and "uninterrupted statehood" within historic and ethnic borders.

However, the Moldovan Declaration of Independence is itself used as an argument against Moldovan sovereignty over Transnistria as it denounces the agreement of 23 August 1939, between the government of the Soviet Union and the government of Nazi Germany, the only formal mention of the union between the two territories, "null and void" .

Stamp commemorating the date of 23 June 1991, the date on which the independence of the Republic of Moldova was voted and proclaimed by the Moldovan Parliament .
Transnistrian region of Moldova