Moldovan PM attends action organized by Afghanistan war veterans
15:30 | 15.02.2020 Category: Official
Chisinau, 15 February /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today participated in actions dedicated to the commemoration of the people who died in the Afghanistan war. The PM, accompanied by a group of ministers, laid flowers at the Feciorilor Patriei - Sfântă Amintire (Holy Memory to Sons of Motherland) memorial complex, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.
„We should not make political assessments of that war, as it was not the Moldovans’ decision to intervene there. Yet, it is our holy duty not to forget your sacrifice, physical and moral wounds which that war left in your lives. Your courage and heroism deserves every admiration on behalf of everybody, as well as the appropriate attitude of the sovereign and independent state Moldova,’’ Ion Chicu said in his speech.
To optimize the dialogue with the participants in the combat actions, the government revived the National Council of Veterans. The Council is led by the defence minister and the interior minister is member of the council. The problems signaled by the veterans are collected, identified on the platform of the council and subsequently solutions are promoted. Following the Council’s activity, decision-makers ruled to give the health insurance policy for free to the veterans who are not employed, to increase the material support to widows and access to medical care. Presently, the leadership considers possibility to import transport means for invalids, as well as to take other social measures.
The prime minister noted that it was necessary that the society preserves the eternal memory for the heroism of the veterans, stressing the role of the education and the mass media in this respect. The 31st anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet military contingent from Afghanistan is marked in 2020. More than 12,000 citizens of Moldova participated in the Afghanistan war.