Officials from the Eastern European nation of Moldova were enraged in 2007 by Spain’s decision to issue a visa to a representative of a renegade breakaway republic, and even threatened to walk out of a ministerial meeting in Madrid. The United States, which was drawn into the controversy, was able to calm the Moldovan delegation’s diplomatic discomfort but privately criticised the Zapatero administration for showing an “ineffective approach” in trying to resolve the ongoing conflict between Moldova and the separatist communist government of Transdniestria. Details of the incident are contained in a confidential US Embassy cable sent from the Moldovan capital Chisinau and released … [Read more...] about Moldovan rage over Spain’s “ineffective approach” to separatism