The meeting of the Parliament’s commission on national security, defense and public order set for May 4 didn’t take place because the quorum was not present after the Socialist MPs left the meeting place. These expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that two issues weren’t included in the agenda – the crossing of the state border by NATO military forces and the entering by two unidentified airplanes of Moldova’s airspace, IPN reports.
At the beginning of the meeting, Socialist MP Ghenadi Mitriuc said the NATO army illegally crossed the state border because the military men didn’t present the necessary documents when they were asked to. “They didn’t have at least solder’s records. We had been at the customs post,” he stated.
The Socialists MPs also asked to discuss the entering of Moldova’s airspace by two unidentified airplanes and to question Minister of Defense Anatol Salaru on this subject. The two planes had stayed in Moldova’s airspace for 16 hours. They photographed Moldova’s territory, including Transnistria. The Socialists said the aircraft took off and landed in Romania’s Iasi.
The commission’s head Veaceslav Untila said the issue would have been included in the agenda if the Socialist MPs had clearly formulated the request. “It’s bothersome that they try to destabilize the situation within the commission, in Parliament and in Moldova in general,” he stated. According to him, the NATO soldiers came to Moldova to help the National Army in its special activities and these have annually come to Moldova since 2006, when the Individual Partnership Action Plan was adopted.
The Socialist MPs, together with activists of the Young Guard, on May 3 blocked the entrance to Moldova at the Sculeni customs post for about an hour. These checked the papers of the U.S. soldiers and military vehicles that crossed the border to Moldova to take part in military exercises and in the exhibition that is to be mounted in central Chisinau on May 9.
