Moldovan PM to attend meetings of Supreme Security Council

Chisinau, 2 February /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Pavel Filip said he will not boycott the meetings of the Supreme Security Council (CSS), chaired by President Igor Dodon. The premier made the statement at a TV show on 1 February.

The official noted he will attend the CSS meetings, where a discussion about the presence and maneuvering of Russian troops in the Transnistrian region will be initiated.

“We have got a request from the CSS secretariat on the issues due to be set on the agenda. For our part, we have proposed several additional topics, including the stationing of foreign armies in Moldova. I am very disturbed by the military applications which have intensified on the left bank of the Dniestre. Recently, for 10 consecutive days, there have been military applications in the region, conducted jointly with the Russian and regional armies”, he said.

“I will go to the CSS meeting, because I am a member of it and I do not like to sabotage one session or another. We will be able to express our view and come up with arguments. Defense Minister Eugen Sturza will attend this meeting too”, Filip said.

Dodon has recently announced he would convene the CSS to discuss the symbolic statements made by some settlements in the country on unification with Romania, which Dodon described as “a threat to the security of Moldova”.

Filip and Speaker Andrian Candu have previously refused to attend the CSS meetings, arguing that “several of the projects included in the agenda are within the competence of the government or parliament, not the CSS”.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Răileanu)