The National Union of Independence War Veterans (UNVRI) is entirely supporting President Nicolae Timofti's appeal for calm and common sense and his instruction to the law enforcement to promptly respond to violations related to mass demonstrations, UNVRI said in a statement. “As active participants in the defense of our country's sovereignty and territorial integrity in 1992, we the veterans of the Independence War share the President's concerns about the recent actions and statements on the edge of the Constitution by certain political groups, and about certain politicians instigating people and state institutions to civil disobedience”. “A proper response must be given to these aggressive and destructive forces and the Nistru war veterans are ready to support the state in the struggle for ensuring the country's independence and sovereignty”, reads the statement. President Nicolae Timofti on Thursday issued an address calling on the nation to keep calm and preserve common sense. In particular, the President remarked: “aggressive groups of people were gathered and dispatched to provoke social and political tension and, thus, destabilize the situation in the country. The print of the same authors is visible everywhere. The forces that lead these hostilities are bothered, in my opinion, by the fact that Moldova, for the first time in its 21 years of independence, has a real chance at joining the ranks of civilized European states. The changes that our country’s undergoes, and the unprecedented support from our western partners, are not received well by those political groups that want to keep Moldova in obscurity, or return it to a realm of uncertainty and fear, where human rights are only valid on paper, and people’s survival depends on the humiliations they would be forced to go through”.