Moldovan PM attends ceremony on handing graduation diplomas at Military Academy

Chisinau, 23 June /MOLDPRES/ - Fifty six graduates of the Alexandru cel Bun Armed Forces Military Academy today received the graduation diplomas of lieutenant. This rank was also given to a young man from Moldova who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy. The PM congratulated the future servicemen for having chosen a responsible profession, noting that they would be members of an institution in which courage and professionalism are on the agenda.    

„To be military means to be able to combine the physical power, integrity, moral qualities and wisdom. The fact that these young people have chosen the Military Academy, have chosen to study, to remain in Moldova and become servicemen gives me and my colleagues power and confidence that what we do just what we must do,” the prime minister said.

In the context, the PM referred to actions undertaken by the government to reform the National Army and provide to servicemen good conditions for work. In this respect, a programme, Professional Army, which provides for giving up the compulsory military service in favour of the contract-based one, has been recently approved. “We want these reforms to make you exercise the profession thinking more about the country rather than about the future,” Pavel Filip stressed.    

According to the prime minister, investments in defence are no longer an option, but a need and even the most ambitious goals are possible to be achieved through patience and work. In 2018, the leadership has managed to achieve historical results: getting full control at border, including in the Transnistrian region, as well as the approval of the decision by the United Nations Organization, under which the resolution on the withdrawal of the Russian forces from Moldova’s territory was supported. The PM highlighted that the decision had been symbolical, as it was taken just before the Sovereignty Day, marked in Moldova today.      

„I want to thank those who work and want us to preserve and strengthen the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the country and here I mean also you, dear military. You give sense to the notion of patriotism and in this way, I would like us everybody to love our country – us to do our job honourably where we are,” the PM added.    

More than 1,800 people have graduated from the Alexandru cel Bun Armed Forces Military Academy starting from 1992 till present.