NoteFor works covering the period prior to independence use USSR as an added descriptor
Related resourceST/CS/SER.F/342/Corr.9,Memo dated 16 Oct. 2006 from Chief of Protocol stipulating that short form is now Moldova,Memo dated 10 Sept. 2008 from Chief of Protocol stipulating that short form is now Republic of Moldova
Note
Instituted April 1992,Short form of name in use as of 16 Oct. 2006,short form of name changed 10 Sept. 2008 Inclusion of diacritics in French and Spanish 20 June 2022
