This year, with Russia's brutal war against Ukraine on our doorstep, Moldova needed friends more than ever.

Active foreign policy and strong partnerships helped us

👉protect our freedom
👉strengthen democracy
👉reaffirm determination to join the European Union I am deeply grateful to Romania & my friend and counterpart @BogdanAurescu for unwavering & unconditional support, and for

👉backing our European path
👉acting to secure our energy supplies
👉helping our communities
👉firm commitment to always be by our side

Pleased to be back in Prague today to meet @JanLipavsky, @MikulasBek, and @kozakj from the @CzechMFA. We focused on three priority areas: 1️⃣ Moldova’s EU bid: updated @EU2022_CZ on our progress implementing the nine steps recommended by the @EU_Commission and paving the way to EU accession.

1) thread. presidential elections in Moldova tomorrow. EU and Russia positions. 2) background: on 1.11 @sandumaiamd suprisingly won by 3.5% margin first round against incumbent Dodon, defeating the predictions of most opinion polls. in 2016 Dodon defeated @sandumaiamd by 52% to 48%.

Some takeaways from the latest war in Nagorno-Karabakh:
1) The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is now officially re-frozen in a way that resembles closely the Madrid Principles, considered by everyone a rather fair compromise. BUT: 2) Azeri (and Turkish) military force, not diplomats delivered progress towards that ‘compromise’. the other key difference - no more talk of NK status. Its like Madrid but without NK status talk and without the diplomats in the room