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President meets with accredited ambassadors in Moldova

21:30 | 14.09.2017 Category: Official

Chisinau, 14 September /MOLDPRES/ – The Moldovan President, Igor Dodon, had a meeting with accredited ambassadors in Moldova. These meetings have already become traditional, the presidency’s press service has reported.

During the dialogue, the parties exchanged views on Moldova's internal and external policy. The officials discussed the confrontation between state institutions – the Presidency versus the parliamentary majority and the government – which are under the control of the Democratic Party (PDM), especially in the context of the latest attempts and challenges. The head of state said that if those open confrontations continued in the same dynamics, challenges and attempts to limit the President's functions, block his initiatives, everything could have ended with mass protests but to a destabilization at national level.

Igor Dodon reiterated the position that government’s failures in recent years, as well as intentions to please some or other actors in the West, were nothing more than "by the eyes of the world", and in fact, the ordinary challenges of the PDM and its exponents. Also, the President mentioned that all those demonstrations, starting with the attempt to amend the Constitution, the challenges to Russia, the speeches on possible conflicts on the Dniester, were, de facto, a well-planned agenda to incite spirits, which in court the final could have led to destabilization in Moldova.

Similarly, were discussed issues related to the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict, the steps to be taken by Moldova in that regard, agenda for meeting with Vadim Krasnoselsky and the issues to be solved for the benefit of the inhabitants of both banks of the Dniester, need to continue discussions in the "5+2" format during the talks.

The parties also discussed the package of laws on Gagauzia, being on the same wave with the whole diplomatic corps, that those laws should be adopted in the format they were drafted by the working group without the intervention of the parliamentary majority. That is why, those laws were returned to the Parliament, said Igor Dodon.

At the meeting, it was also addressed the topic of the referendum on the resignation of mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, the head of state expressing his conviction that it would take place on 19 November and early elections in Chisinau in spring of 2018, whereby the city inhabitants would be able to choose a mayor to represent them.

It also reviewed the agenda of external visits, but also the immediate priorities of the presidential institution.

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