Moldova is leaving the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the organization that unites some of the former Soviet Union’s states under one roof. This was announced today in Chisinau by Parliament President Igor Grosu (pro-European Action and Solidarity Party/PAS).
After consultations with President Maia Sandu, the government, and representatives of civil society, he decided to apply first for his country’s immediate exit from the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member states, Grosu said.
After a founding member of the CIS, namely the Russian Federation, “barbarically attacked another founding member – Ukraine, occupying parts of its territory and killing countless of its citizens,” Grosu said, “there can no longer be any talk of a community.”
According to Grosu, the exit will take place gradually, overall the process is “quite complicated and time-consuming”. After 30 years of CIS membership, however, one can conclude that this did not even help to settle his country’s frozen conflict with breakaway Transnistria and to bring about the withdrawal of the Russian army or the so-called “peacekeeping forces”. According to Grosu, membership of the CIS in no way saved “from gas extortion in the middle of winter”.
