CHISINAU – Ukrainian Ambassador to Moldova Ivan Hnatyshyn accused Moldovan President Igor Dodon of not respecting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“There can be no contacts with a president of Moldova who doesn’t respect my country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Hnatyshyn said at a roundtable conference with the theme “Moldova-Ukraine: Cooperation, Competition, Interdependence” in Chisinau on Sept.27.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman will come to Chisinau on an official visit on Oct.6, he said.
Former Moldovan Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Popov said during the discussion that “the relationship between the two countries has been developing successfully of late, but not a single Ukrainian prime minister has visited Moldova over the past ten years.”
“I am not even talking about presidents. There are no contacts whatsoever between them,” Popov said.
During the presidential campaign in Oct. 2016, Dodon said that “Crimea officially belongs to Russia.” This remark caused Kyiv’s outrage and undermined relations between the two countries.
