Moldova refuses to send MPs to inter-parliamentary group meeting in Moscow
Newsmaker.md news agency, citing the press service of the Moldovan Parliament, reports that the permanent bureau of the Moldovan parliament has decided neither to send MPs nor to allocate budgetary funds for a meeting of the Moldovan-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group in Moscow.
According to Newsmaker, those MPs wishing to go are invited to go at their own expense and without an official mandate from the Parliament.
The possible participation of some deputies will be carried out at their own expense, and they will not represent the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, said the Moldovan parliament.
The first meeting of the Moldovan-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group in the last few years is scheduled for December 10-13, in Moscow.
56 deputies From the Moldovan side, led by Socialist Party leader Zinaida Greceanîi, are part of the Friendship Group with the Russian Federation.
Moldovan President Igor Dodon said earlier that many members of the group would like to go to Moscow.
However, Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu stated that "no one is going anywhere, and we will not give a single leu toward it".