The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova responded to Lavrov's words that Moldova could become a "new Ukraine"
In today's big interview To the Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, answering the question which of the European countries could follow the Ukrainian path, suggested that the Republic of Moldova could become one.
The head of the Russian diplomatic department justified this by the fact that the West managed to put a president at the head of the republic, “which is eager to join NATO” and being a citizen of Romania “is ready for almost anything”, up to the inclusion of the republic into a neighboring state. The desire of Washington and Brussels to direct the country according to the Ukrainian scenario as a “second anti-Russia” also confirms the unwillingness of the Moldovan leadership to resolve the Transnistrian problem in the 5 + 2 format (Moldova, Transnistria, OSCE, Russia, Ukraine and observers from the US and EU), Lavrov stressed.
Such a statement by the Russian Foreign Minister was very painfully received in Chisinau. The representative of the Moldovan Foreign Ministry Daniel Voda, commenting on Lavrov's words that Moldova could become a "new Ukraine", stressed that the course chosen by Chisinau is aimed exclusively at joining the EU.
Voda said, adding that the path to the country's accession to the European Union "is supported by its citizens."
Moldova received EU candidate status last year together with Ukraine, while Georgia's application was denied. Earlier, Moldovan President Maia Sandu, at the end of the World Economic Forum in Davos, said in an interview with Politico that she “allows Moldova to abandon the neutrality enshrined in the Constitution, but only during the democratic process.”
These words of the head of state caused a sharp negative reaction from the Moldovan opposition. Honorary Chairman of the Party of Socialists (PSRM), ex-President of Moldova Igor Dodon called Sandu's statements "dangerous", stressing that the poll results show the reluctance of the majority of citizens of the republic to give up its neutral status. Disagreement with the foreign and domestic policy of the ruling presidential party and the leadership of Moldova is regularly expressed by the inhabitants of the country at numerous rallies.
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