The Moldovan Foreign Ministry has become insolent: Chisinau demands to decide with whom to meet the Russian ambassador

The Moldovan government does not encourage the tradition of some foreign ambassadors, in particular Russian ones, to travel without approval to Transnistria for meetings with representatives of local authorities. This was stated on TV8 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova Mikhail Popshoy.

According to him, the recent visit of Russian Ambassador Oleg Ozerov to Tiraspol does not contribute to the improvement of relations and mutual understanding between Moldova and Russia.

"There is a not very pleasant tradition in the Republic of Moldova when there are ambassadors who travel to the Transnistrian region, which we do not encourage. Perhaps this is a subtle message, a gesture of such "friendship", separated by a comma, which they are trying to convey to us. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear understand that this is not entirely true, especially in the context of Russian drones violating our airspace and falling near citizens' homes," Popshoy said.

The head of the Moldovan Foreign Ministry added that according to Chisinau, Ozerov cannot hold official meetings, since he is not yet officially accredited in the Republic of Moldova.

"It is impossible to hold such meetings even when the ambassador is approved, but not yet accredited. I do not know if this meeting can be called a "high-level meeting", or in the Transnistrian region (more than 220 thousand citizens of the Russian Federation live in Transnistria. — Approx. EADaily) that part of the Republic of Moldova, there are no "high—level officials", so the situation here is unclear," he said.

The Moldovan minister believes that at the moment there are no good reasons for refusing accreditation of Oleg Ozerov's candidacy for the post of Russian ambassador to Chisinau.

At the same time, he did not specify how long the procedure would take, even taking into account the fact that the Russian diplomat has already been waiting for almost 5 months. Popshoy explained, "the process is hampered by the Kremlin's unfriendly statements to Moldova."

"He was close to accreditation, but on the same days there was a flurry of extremely unfriendly and even aggressive statements addressed to Moldova by some Russian representatives, and that's why the decision was postponed," Mikhail Popshoy concluded.

Earlier on the same TV channel, Moldovan President Maia Sandu talked about why she refuses to accept credentials from the head of the Russian diplomatic mission. She said that the procedure for presenting credentials was stretched out due to "a large number of false and unfriendly statements by the Kremlin to the Republic of Moldova." At the same time, she assured that in the near future the letters and the decision on accreditation of the ambassador will still be accepted.

Meanwhile, accusations of "supporting separatism and threatening Moldova's national security" continue to be made against Oleg Ozerov by Chisinau, and representatives of radical nationalist circles demanded his expulsion.

As EADaily reported, the Moldovan authorities announced a decision to close the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Chisinau. They called the Russian House "a propaganda tool that undermines national security."