DISINFO: NATO impoverished Moldova
SUMMARY
NATO is a threat to the Republic of Moldova. This collaboration with NATO, besides putting our budget on the brink, creates problems with Russia, which is our strategic partner. Besides creating inter-ethnic problems, with 70 percent of the population being against NATO, […] this collaboration with NATO creates serious problems for our peace and the political stability of the country. Look at all the NATO states, they all have terrorist acts.
RESPONSE
Following request for access to public information, the Ministry of Defense declared that, last year, only 50,000 lei were allocated from the public budget for military participation in missions abroad. Previous sociological surveys, such as the May 2018 Barometer of Public Opinion, estimate that 53.8% of Moldovan citizens are against the accession of the Republic of Moldova to NATO. This figure is significantly below the 70% referenced in the articles. According to data presented in the Global Terrorism Index for 2018, among the top 50 countries in the world where terrorist acts took place last year, there are only 8 of the 29 NATO member countries. At the same time, the index of terrorism in some NATO countries included in this Index (such as Spain, Belgium, Greece or Germany) is even lower than that in Russia.
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