President Dodon: Moldova will never be anti-Russian
Igor Dodon, the President of Moldova assured that Chisinau would never pursue an anti-Russian policy, RIA Novosti reports.
“I am absolutely against Moldova considering even the possibility of joining NATO... If someone tries to use Moldova as cannon fodder in the fight against Russia, I mean the goals of NATO. We see what they want and achieve in this region. We see what some Western forces in Ukraine have achieved unfortunately... We do not need such scenarios,” Dodon said in an interview on Belarusian television.
He noted that Chisinau does not want to interfere in “geopolitical battles” and stressed that “we will definitely never be anti-Russian.”
“We will be anti-Western for some positions, you know,” said the Moldovan leader and explained that he especially did not agree with the West on the issue of sexual minorities.
“If at some stage the Moldovan authorities decide to integrate politically into the EU, it will blow up the country. There won’t simply be such a state as Moldova. There will be something different: some regions will be attached to Romania and there will be some other territorial association. We categorically cannot allow this”, he stressed.
Concerning the association agreement with the EU, Dodon said he still does not see any results and believes that it has to be reviewed.
Earlier, Dodon stated that joining NATO was categorically unacceptable for Moldova and said that the signing in 2014 of the Association Agreement with the EU was a mistake.