The government is offering a new country project as Moldova celebrates its 30th anniversary as an independent republic. It involves building public institutions with clear rules and free of corruption that take our country on a path of prosperity and European integration, stated President Maia Sandu during a festive speech in the Great National Assembly Square.
According to the head of state, together with the citizens, the government will build a state based on the rule of law with genuine justice, where people will learn to respect the law and understand that the state’s wealth is their wealth and that it needs to be protected. It will create conditions for the return of those who left abroad. “I invite you to work together to make a team between the state and the citizens,” said the president.
Maia Sandu declared that Moldova belongs in the family of European states and that Moldova will have a predictable foreign policy. “Today we know what we have to do, we want to live well on this earth. We want our villages and towns to be full of people. I trust the future of the country because I trust the people of the Republic of Moldova”.
Maia Sandu went on to make historical references. “The seed of our freedom was in the movement of national rebirth and liberation of Moldova, which brought together brave people: doctors, teachers, farmers, journalists, engineers, historians. United by the desire to fight for national justice. People bravely embraced the chance to claim their national identity and celebrate it unreservedly in our language, the Romanian language in the recovered Latin alphabet, as well as the national symbols, after decades of restrictions and censorship. Back then, we wanted to live with dignity in our home. And we want the same today”, stated Maia Sandu.
The Moldovan president added that she appreciates the gesture of friendship of Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, who attended the inauguration of festivities, but also the gesture of friendship of the presidents of Moldova’s neighboring countries. Due to heavy fog that prevented their timely landing in Chisinau, the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis missed the inauguration, but managed to reach the very beginning of the military parade. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelesky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal were also able to catch a glimpse of the parade.
At the end of the festivity, the officials marched through the Great National Assembly Square to the applause of the public attending.
