The Moldovan Parliament adopted the updated National Defense Strategy for 2018-2021 years and an action plan for its implementation, According to Kommersant.
Only in 2018 , the provision is about the realization of the plan $37,5 million. (625 million. lei). In the future, the annual scrip will grow and reach $90 million. (1,5 billion. lei).
The document says, that the country intends to maintain its neutral status, but at the same time will deepen cooperation with NATO.
The presence of Russian troops in Transnistria in the strategy called military threat, because the group is there "without the consent of the legislature of Chisinau and in violation of the constitution".
The newspaper recalls, The presence of the Russian military in Transnistria is carried out in two formats: as part of the Russian group of troops (OGRV) and the peacekeeping mission. The peacekeeping mission also involved troops in Moldova and the unrecognized republic of Transnistria.
meanwhile, President of Moldova Igor Dodon, opposing national strategy in this form, pointedly introduced the document its alternative, aimed at ensuring the security of the country by means of "strengthening the constitutional status of permanent neutrality" of Moldova.
In him, in particular, celebrated, that when the great powers are left trying to agree on respecting the interests of each other, the first victims of these differences are small, significantly weaker countries. Dodon confident, that Moldova should not be involved in "ephemeral confrontation" West-East.
Russia in this document called the guarantor of a comprehensive political settlement in the region, which gives the country the opportunity to develop as a sovereign, independent public education.
It should be noted, the president, due to the existing political institutions in Moldova, can not conduct an independent policy in the country, therefore, the document submitted by him is none other than, as a personal declaration.
