Moldovan president says she calls for peace, as guns presently shoot nearby Moldova again

Chisinau, 2 March /MOLDPRES/ - President Maia Sandu today commemorated the participants in the combat actions for the defence of the country’s territorial integrity and independence, who died in the war at Dniester, the presidential press service has reported.  

„This was an armed conflict who started 30 years ago, which targeted the suppression of Moldova’s independence and territorial integrity, and in which we lost hundreds of lives and another hundreds of people were injured,’’ the head of state said in her message conveyed at the commemoration rally. The Moldovan president also said that today, when Moldova marks the Memory and Gratitude Day, we remember the sacrifice of these people and we bow our heads before them and their families. ‘’ Now, it is important that also the new generations should preserve the memory of those times and the state should not forget, just as it happened during more years, the war veterans, the participants in the combat actions for the defence of Moldova’s integrity and independence,’’ President Maia Sandu said.      

In the context, the head of state said that, on 1 March, in parliament, a draft law was registered, which provides for more measures of material support for veterans. And today she signed the decree, under which the commemorative medal dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the war is awarded to all participants in the Transnistria War.  

In her speech, Maia Sandu called for peace and ceasefire at the borders of Moldova. ‘’As today, more than 30 years after the war at Dniester, guns are shooting again nearby us, I called for the ceasefire. I called for peace. Only in peace, we will be able to edify here, on our land, a peaceful and prosperous country, a European country. This is the choice of Moldova’s citizens,’’ the Moldovan president said.  

The head of state conveyed a message to the residents from the left bank of Dniester, stressing that Moldova is our everybody’s country and together we can edify a society in which people with different opinions can coexist peacefully, without conflicts, can live freely and with respect for each other.  

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