National Defence committee  The role of parliamentarians is huge. I mentioned the parliamentary assembly that has been created between the three countries, which is a very strong tool to make the concerns of our countries better heard. With regard to the upcoming parliamentary elections in Moldova, I've rep

National Defence committee  For me, the endgame is that Russia simply wants to maintain control and keep the countries of the former Soviet Union in their sphere of influence. They are doing everything for this. Moldova has its parliamentary elections next February. Our elections will come a little earlier

National Defence committee  I mentioned in my presentation meddling in the election processes. This was real several times. I will also mention how much Russia has used the Transnistrian population in order to ensure that they had the best involvement in Russia's presidential elections. Out of 27 polling st

National Defence committee  I'm assisting a very interesting discussion. I want just to comment on the previous questions and what you have mentioned. You can imagine that having the frozen conflicts in the two countries and war in Ukraine is leverage for Moscow to keep these countries weak, to keep them u

National Defence committee  Thank you so much. The fact that Moldova has Russian troops stationed to the western border of Ukraine means that it is potentially another front, which could be opened at any time by Russia. The Transnistria region is situated actually 100 kilometres from Odessa. Clearly Russi

National Defence committee  Perhaps my colleagues will continue. Thank you so much for this question. I'm happy that you've been following the recent developments. Indeed, that was an initiative of the three parliaments, to create an interparliamentary assembly that would be focused on defining the measur

National Defence committee  Perhaps you would look at the map again, although this does not give you a very precise view of the Transnistrian segment of the common border with Ukraine, which is around 450 kilometres in length. Since this territory is not controlled by the constitutional authorities of the R

National Defence committee  Thank you so much. Chair Fuhr, vice-chairs, distinguished members of the committee and my fellow ambassadors, I am truly honoured to take part in this briefing session on regional security, especially in this format along with my colleagues and good friends from Georgia and Ukr

National Defence committee  No, I just want to thank you very much for your attention and for your commitment to considering how best to engage Canada in supporting young democracies like Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine. Thank you for that, and I am open to co-operation whenever you believe it necessary. Tha

National Defence committee  No, I see Mr. Bezan.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. May I just comment? It's not a question, but I will comment only that we are approaching parliamentary elections this year, in late November. It will be, again, about a geopolitical choice. Again, the population is very polarized regarding which direction to

National Defence committee  It's for two years.

National Defence committee  The association agreement provides very specific chapters in all spheres of activities, and provides very concrete steps that have to be undertaken to reform the national economy, and to reform the justice sector, because that sector, unfortunately, needs urgent attention. By th

National Defence committee  If it's only for the purpose of defence, yes. The status of neutrality provides for Moldova to, first of all, make sure that it is well prepared against any risk. It is not being used for any other purpose than defence. It does not contradict our neutral status for us to be invol

National Defence committee  I keep receiving results of all sorts of public opinion polls every day. I am confused sometimes which figures to believe or which are more accurate. There are very many, and they are absolutely not restricted. We have quite a few, by the way, non-governmental organizations that