Topic: Determining the Legitimacy of Secession Movements and Obligations of Parent States
Country: Romania
Delegate Name: Sara Mehari
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Romania position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
The act of secession is the withdrawing of a state from its original – or “parent” – state, and there have been many secession movements throughout history of the world, making situations hard on both the country seceding and the parent nation, making them economically weak and the two separate nations often holding hostilities toward one another.
In Romania’s history, there have been many secession movements. The country initially seceded from the Ottoman Empire in 1877, and prior to Romania’s involvement in World War One, the Kingdom of Romania merger that was signed secretly with the Treaty of Bucharest in 1916 gained the country new territories, though the treaty was nullified and renounced after the war in 1920. Again after World War Two, Romania was required to cede Dorburja to Bulgaria within the Treaty of Craiova and Northern Transylvania to Hungary, both in 1940. After the secession of the Kingdom of Moldova, a previous providence of Romania, in 1991, relationships were strained because of the initial reluctance of Romania to recognize the independent nation as a country. Though in 1976, Ceaușescu, the leader of Romania at the time, meet with the leaders of the new country of Moldova, formally recognizing it’s independence.
After several movements toward secession from numerous states, Romania is in supportance of the right to defy their parent government and ties and declare themselves independent, under
