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As a result of an initiative launched by the President Vladimir Voronin, on December, 22^th 2005, was formed a specialized Commission for drawing up a new National Security Concept, which had to replace the old one, adopted in 1995. In 2007, after two years of continuous discussions, a draft of the new Concept was placed on the electronic page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. At that time, placing the project on electronic page seemed to represent an attempt by the state authorities to cooperate with civil society...

Status of neutrality of Moldova enshrined in Article 11 of the Constitution and the "cornerstone" of the National Security Concept is an object of permanent unterest. Investigating the views of several analysts, researchers, friends and students, I noticed that we could establish three categories of individuals who share similar ideas and perceptions or different status of neutrality of the Republic of Moldova...

The authors of the National Security Concept have sought to demonstrate to the Russian Federation that Moldova can stick to its word and that Moscow can be confident in Moldova, especially now, in transnistrian conflict regulation...

Now, when the National Security Concept was voted in second reading by the Moldovan Parliament, seems for me to be a more settled and more critical moments have been taken into consideration. On the other hand, there were not taken into account...

We have conflict issues for 17 years, also we have a lot of problems with energy security, so we should have any solutions addresed to solve them...

Recently, the Moldovan Parliament adopted at the first reading the National Security Concept of the Republic of Moldova. It is a document...

From the start we may state that the text of this concept is clearly below the expectations of independent experts and civil society. Of course, until vote in second reading, it can be improved, so that in the final version, to satisfy more needs to ensure the national security...

In Moldova there is not a clear and consensual understanding of what threatens are addresed to the national security. The threats identified in the draft of the National Security Concept differs from the Law of state security, and formulations such as "military contingent of the Republic of Moldova will be limited to the military personnel, employed on contract basis" are contradictory to the Military Doctrine...

Currently there is not a relevant document that would establish the principles of risk assessment and security threats, and solutions to prevent and combat them...

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The Parliament voted today by a majority the National Security Concept of Moldova. In the Legislative was discussed and approved on the first reading a completely different project than the one prepared a year or so ago. The new project is one of several times smaller in volume and vague, unlike the previous, which was very well written...