Preserving Moldova’s neutrality impossible without strategic partnership with Russia - Moldovan president

MOSCOW, January 17. /TASS/. Moldova’s President Igor Dodon has said it is impossible to protect the republic’s statehood and neutrality and solve some other problems without strategic partnership with Russia. "Preserving Moldova’s statehood and neutrality, the country’s reintegration, tackling the Transnistrian issue and preserving Orthodox Christian values - all that cannot be protected and solved without strategic partnership with Russia," he told a news conference following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Dodon also noted that Tuesday’s negotiations with Putin are historic, since they make it possible to review relations between Moscow and Chisinau and change them for the better. The presidential election won by leader of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon were held in Moldova in November 2016. Dodon said that he would pay his first visit as the head of state to Moscow to initiate negotiations aimed at developing an agreement on strategic partnership, friendship, economic cooperation and the Transnistrian settlement with Russia. Read more