President Igor Dodon expressed his bewilderment at the decision by representatives of the Government and parliamentary alliance not to take part in the meeting of the Supreme Security Council. He said that if the Council’s meetings are “boycotted” again, he could modify the composition of the Council, IPN reports.
In a news conference given after the Democrats announced that the representatives of the Government and Parliament will not take part in the August 29 meeting of the Supreme Security Council, Igor Dodon said this decision can be interpreted in different ways. “They either do not have sufficient arguments to explain their position or simply prefer to avoid responsibility for the made gestures. But it seems to me that it is more serious than this and our suspicions that the Government and the parliamentary alliance deliberately take steps to worsen the relations with the Russian Federation are being confirmed,” stated the President.
He said the subject concerning the declaration of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin persona non grata, which was invoked by the Democrats, was the fifth item on the agenda that also included other important issues, such as the irregularities committed in the process of selling the unused property of the National Army in 2013-2017, the hydropower complex in Novodnestrovsk and the activity of foreign intelligence services on Moldova’s territory.
“They intentionally try to block the President’s initiatives to restore the good strategic and economic relations with Russia. The case with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was a fake reason invoked with the aim of enabling the Government to once again compromise the Moldovan-Russian relations and to create a new state of tension between our states. We understand very well that their protectors from over the ocean oblige them to find any pretext to damage the relations with Moscow. The instruction was to bring Moldova into conflict with Russia at any cost,” noted Igor Dodon.
In his opinion, neglecting this and other problems means exposing the economic security to risks and not taking into account the national interests. But these problems are also within the remit of the Supreme Security Council and the boycotting of the Council’s meeting is a defiance of the interests of the people, first of all.
“I warn that if the Government and the parliamentary alliance continue to block the Council’s meetings , I will consider the possibility of modifying the composition of the Council so as to have an efficient body that does not depend on the personal whims of some of its members of,” stated President Dodon.
On August 29, Speaker Andrian Candu, who is the deputy chairman of the Democratic Party, announced that the administration of the Government and Parliament will not take part in the meeting of the Supreme Security Council that was convened for today. According to him, the representatives of the power will be absent from the meeting because the agenda includes issues that are not within the competence of the Council and of the President. The Moldovan Government’s decision to declare the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin persona non grata is such a subject. Andrian Candu noted that the absence from the Council’s meeting does not represent boycott and the administration of the Government and Parliament will take part in the meetings that will center on issues that really concern state security.
