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Warning to cancel the EU Association Agreement.
While in Russia for his official visit, during a press conference at the HQs of TASS Russian news agency, Moldovan president Igor Dodon made new controversial statements on Tuesday. Dodon expressed his regret that in 1812 the Russian Empire hasn’t annexed the entire Moldova’s territory and stopped at Prut River. “If the Russian Empire hadn’t stopped at Prut, we would have had now a rounded Moldova,” he said.
According to Agerpres, Dodon told the Russian journalists that “half of the Romania’s current territory is Moldovan”.
In his turn, Russian president Vladimir gave his counterpart in Chisinau the map of the Great Moldova as a gift, made by the Italian cartographer Bartolomeo Borghi, unimedia.md reports.
The map was made at the end of the 18th century after the Russia-Turk war from 1790-1791. The map comprises the territory of the current Republic of Moldova, the Romanian region of Moldova, northern Bukovina and a part of Dobrogea.
At the same time, while helding the press conference also attended by the Russian president Vladimir Putin, Moldovan president Igor Dodon stated that “after the next parlimentary elections in Chisinau, the Socialists Party (PSRM) will win the majority in Parliament”, while he will cancel the Association Agreement with the EU, arguing that the agreement the Republic of Moldova has signed with the European Union has brought no benefit to the country, but on the contrary, the republic has lost the Russian market.
In retort, Moldovan PM Pavel Filip said on Wednesday that his pro-European Government would accept no intervention from Dodon on a matter that is not under the President’s authority. In a statement to Associated Press, Pavel Filip said that the Republic of Moldova’s constitution doesn’t allow the President “to announce or take such decisions”, that he called “pure rhetoric”. “On the contrary, we’ll speed up the enforcement of the assumed commitments,” he stated.
In retort, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told a press release to Agerpres that it took note of Igor Dodon’s statements on the occasion of his visit to Moscow and that it considered them improper and not complying with the political realities and with the special relations between Romania and Republic of Moldova.
“Sustainable consolidation of the relations with Republic of Moldova and the steadfast support of the effort to get close to the EU in compliance with the bilateral Strategic Partnership for the European integration still represents a top priority of Romania’s foreign policy,” MAE added.
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