Moldovan PM launches initiatives supporting veterans
10:37 | 03.11.2014 Category: Official
Chisinau, 3 November /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Iurie Leanca on the last week-end met participants in the fights to defend the integrity and independence of Moldova and tackled their problems and measures due to be undertaken for their support, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.
About
26,000 Transnistria war veterans are registered in Moldova. Attending
the discussions were also veterans of the Afghanistan armed conflict and participants
in Chernobyl accident.
“I think time is ripe to switch to more facts. Therefore, I launch initiatives with a general title, "Sacrifice deserves respect," which is to bring back the well-deserved respect of state and
society for veterans. This is a complex approach in relation with veterans, we record for the first time ever”, he noted.
Thus, the
government is set to promote the state's policies in social and legal assistance of veterans, at the level of the European ones, to create and strengthen a
system of mechanisms to ensure social protection of veterans, to back the
veterans’ participation in the patriotic education of the young generation.
In this context, the involvement of public authorities, as well as of veteran organisations is needed, which would optimise the work of the national council on problems of
participants in armed conflicts. It is also necessary that the Council improves its activity regulation, veterans' organizations develop partnerships with economic agents, a single centre for legal assistance of veterans be set up, etc. At the same time, he
stressed the need for joint projects with veterans' organizations from abroad and that the veterans open a fund for their support.
“These
initiatives, which are to be enforced in the next four years, will make the social protection
of veterans a priority for the government, as well as an opportunity to use the huge potential of the veterans, to strengthen the country’s statehood,” Leanca added.
Subsequently,
the premier, accompanied by veterans, attended a charity event, donating money
for the treatment of a nine-year-old boy, sick with leukaemia, as well as for families
with many children.