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​SPEAKER CANDU CALMS PRESIDENT DODON DOWN CONCERNING MOLDOVA’S NEUTRALITY

24 january, 2017

Parliament Chairman Andrian Candu asked President Igor Dodon not to worry about Moldova’s neutrality.

Candu wrote on his Facebook page on Monday that the neutrality of the Republic of Moldova has been fixed in its Constitution, “so there is not even a slightest reason for anxiety that the neutrality can be lost or that foreign troops may be brought into the republic, “with the exception of those already deployed in the Transnistrian region”. Therefore, President Igor Dodon’s anxiety is devoid of a ground”.

Candu also wrote that the activity of the NATO Office, being created in Chisinau, “is aimed at ensuring a link between this international structure and our military agencies”.

“I.e. it is a technical office for informing and communication, and nothing more. I would like to remind that yet during the Communist governance period [2001-2009], Moldova laid the basis for cooperation with NATO structures. Our military then began participating in international peacekeeper operations within the framework of the NATO Partnership for Peace Program, and the Moldovan army received only advantages from this cooperation, like did the national security, too”, wrote Andrian Candu.

Prime Minister Pavel Filip stated at a news conference last Friday that the NATO Office in Chisinau will begin working in March. In November 2016, Prime Minister Pavel Filip signed a corresponding agreement on the Office opening with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels.

However, President Igor Dodon stated an intention to block the NATO Office’s work and to achieve a meticulous observance of Moldova’s neutrality. Speaking at the news conference with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, Dodon said that he is preparing to visit Brussels in the first half of February, where he may well raise the question of closing down the NATO Office and signing a special Agreement on NATO’s recognition of Moldova’s constitutional neutrality.

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