Both were accused of aiding and abetting the transfer abroad of £2.6m of St Piran assets in breach of the undertaking.

Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government, rather than on party lines, was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation.

The Russian army was still stationed in Moldovan territory in breach of the undertakings to withdraw them completely given by Russia at the OSCE summits in 1999 and 2001.