Representatives of the Party of Socialists (PSRM) consider Moldova’s partnership with NATO generates evident dangers to national security. As an electoral commitment, the Socialists pledge to strengthen the country’s neutrality status if they enter the next Parliament, IPN reports.
According to the party’s executive secretary Vlad Batrîncea, Moldova, in virtue of the supreme law, is a neutral state and cannot join military blocs. Regrettably, after 2009 the government carried out a number of activities in partnership with NATO and in 2017 Parliament accepted to open the NATO Liaison Office in Chisinau. “Moldova’s Partnership with this bloc not only runs counter to the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, but also generates evident dangers to the security of the state and envisions Moldova’s participation in military missions. This can cause particular problems in the Republic of Moldova in relation to a number of partners from outside the country,” stated the Socialist.
Vlad Batrîncea also said that Moldova is a small neutral state that does not have geopolitical and military ambitions. “We consider these geopolitical decisions cause only harm to the Republic of Moldova and turn us into a geopolitical piece in someone else’s hands. We want to be friends with everyone and to be at war with no one,” he noted.
Communist MP Gennady Mitriuc said the opening of the NATO Office in Moldova makes the reunification of the two banks of the Nistru impossible. If Moldova entered NATO, the young people would become involved in different military operations in other states. “We want the young people to start families here. We want to open schools and the people to have pacifist professions,” he stated.
