​ACUM LEADERS HOLD MEETINGS WITH AMBASSADORS OF USA, RUSSIA AND EU

On Wednesday, the leaders of the political bloc ACUM, Maya Sandu and Andrei Nastase, held separate meetings with the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, Dereck Hogan, with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova, Oleg Vasnetsov, and with Ambassador Peter Michalko, the Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Moldova, and described the events in the social networks.

According to Infotag sources in the Parliament, the meeting with the Russian Ambassador was organized in the ACUM office in the Parliament Building. Oleg Vasnetsov requested a meeting with them yet last week, for he is holding familiarization meetings with the leaderships of all the new Moldovan parliamentary parties. On Tuesday, e.g., he met with the leader of the Ilan Shor Party. And by the end of this week he is projecting to have conversations with the leaderships of the Democratic Party and the Party of Socialists.

Having given consent to meet with the Russian Ambassador, the ACUM leaders requested by diplomatic channels also meetings with the Heads of the United States and European Union Missions. And on Wednesday, they visited the Missions and held conversations with Dereck Hogan and Peter Michalko.

According to official reports, all the three meetings were dedicated to discussing the situation in Moldova and the ongoing negotiations on ruling coalition formation and appointment of a government. Andrei Nastase and Maya Sandu confirmed their conditions for negotiations with the Party of Socialists: voting for the ACUM package of country de-oligarchization bills, refusal to form an official coalition, and the appointment of a minority government to be headed by Maya Sandu.

Sandu and Nastase emphasized once again that for them, the chief priority now is the adoption of the said country de-oligarchization bills as well as a return to the proportional representation system of elections and its improvement in conformity with the recommendations given by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. The bloc leaders are insisting also on an urgent re-convocation of the new Parliament’s first plenary meeting that was suspended yet on March 21.

“The ACUM bloc is concerned about the current socio-political situation in the country. We have presented our vision of how the mounting problems can be resolved, and proposed our variant of overcoming the impasse that appeared after the February 24 parliamentary elections”, the leaders wrote in the ACUM’s Facebook page.