🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on the establishment of a new EU partnership mission in Moldova
❓Question: On April 24, the EU Council approved the establishment of a new EU partnership mission in Moldova. What is your comment on this decision?
💬 Maria Zakharova: In fact, this decision was adopted at the EU ministerial meeting in Luxembourg on April 24. We are seeing more active attempts by the EU to find a firmer foothold in the post-Soviet space using the deployment of their field presence as a tool.
In using the word “partner” for its new mission, the EU is, as always, dissembling. The mission is being deployed as part of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy. This name should not create any illusions as to what the EU’s representatives will be doing in Moldova: in fact, they will be exercising administrative influence locally.
The history of the EU’s mediating efforts is well known.
👉 Take, for example, its futile attempts to implement the agreement on creating a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo, which has been reached within the framework of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and is being openly stonewalled by the Kosovo authorities with full connivance from the US and EU.
👉 The EU’s “civilian” mission in Armenia, deployed for geopolitical reasons in February 2023, is not facilitating the normalisation of relations in the South Caucasus either.
Thus, the EU has little to show us so far.
❌ The EU’s new presence in Moldova, given its radically changed identity and its transformation into a geopolitical tool in the hands of the United States and NATO, one committing openly confrontational acts towards Russia, is unlikely to help stabilise the situation in the country or in the surrounding region, so, it should be treated accordingly.
Source: Russian MFA
