No. 590. Please transmit to the Federal Government the following
telegram which has been sent to me with a request that I
communicate it to it.
Kishinev, 11/24 February, 1918.
To the Government of the French Republic, at Paris, with a
request that the same text be also transmitted to the
governments of the following countries:
To the Government of the Republic of the United States.
The Government of the Moldavian Republic constituted in the
territory lying between the Dniester and the Prut has the
honor to inform the Royal Government (sic) that by a vote of the Moldavian Parliament
named Sfatul Ţarei on January 24 (old style) the Moldavian
Republic, which until January 24, 1918, formed part of the
federation of the other republics constituted in the
territory of the former Russian Empire, proclaimed its
independence.
The Government of the Moldavian Republic earnestly prays the
Royal Government (sic) to take note
of the said declaration and to recognize the existence of
the Moldavian Republic as an independent state possessing
absolute national sovereignty.
We beg the Royal Government (sic) to
reply to the Government of the Moldavian Republic at
Kishinev and to recognize the Moldavian Republic as being
sovereign independent (state).
Ciugureano, President
of the Council of Ministers
Pelivan, Minister of Foreign
Affairs
