9/18 Turkey’s speaker of Parliament Mustafa Șentop visited Moldova’s autonomous region Gagauzia. He condemned the invasion of Ukraine and encouraged the local population to learn Romanian (despite being a Turkic minority, the Gagauz have been russified during the Soviet Union)
Popov also believes that this has a negative impact on Ukraine’s perception in the eyes of some part of the Moldovan society – Dodon’s supporters and those who get their news primarily from Russian media.
He said that amid an unprecedentedly high intensity of contacts at the executive level, there is absolutely no dialogue between the presidents of the two countries is, which is a negative factor for bilateral relations.(
ongoing inUkraine.What kind of understanding or contacts can we talk about?"/The diplomat’s statement came as a response to a recent statement by head of the Institute of Strategic Initiatives of Moldova, former deputy head of theMinistry ofForeign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Popov.(