SUPREME SECURITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER PILOT LIBERATION SITUATION NEXT WEEK – PRESIDENT DODON

The situation around the Moldovan helicopter pilots, liberated from captivity in Afghanistan last Saturday and remaining in Moscow since last Monday, will be discussed at the next week’s meeting of the Supreme Security Council of Moldova, President Igor Dodon stated during his meeting with citizens in the Stefan Voda Raion.

“I have already sent official inquiries to all Moldovan relevant power structures. I want the heads of each of them to answer what they were doing last three and a half years to liberate our pilots from the Taliban captivity. All of them – the Information and Security Service (ISS), the Ministry of the Interior, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration – were sitting as if in the underground all these years, though it was their direct duty to act to save our citizens. Now I want them to come and report the truth to the Head of State”, said Igor Dodon.

The President presumes that Budget means could have been allocated for pilot liberation measures.

“I have information that the Cabinet allocated a huge sum for this from the Governmental Reserve Fund by issuing a secret Resolution in 2017. Well, let’s see where the money has gone. I have information that several tens of million lei went to Qatar or Dubai. We must clarify everything”, stressed Igor Dodon.

Earlier, the President reproached the DP-led country leadership for their taking no attempts to release the two pilots.

“What were you doing these past 3 and half years to have the right to criticize anybody for their non-liberation several months or weeks earlier than now?” asked Dodon indignantly.

Earlier this week, Andrian Candu accused the President of marking time deliberately in order to make the pilots be liberated not several months ago but now i.e. closer to the parliamentary election.