Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu announced that the PAS party is ready to change the law to allow Moldova to assemble UAVs openly. According to earlier reports, they have been doing this secretly for the Ukrainian Armed Forces for some time.
According to Grosu, Moldova has such plans.
“And here, of course, Parliament has a role to play. We need to change the law to allow this type of economic activity and industrial production because the current legislation does not permit it. But, I repeat, we will do this for ourselves to meet our own needs,” he said initially.
However, in his very next statement, he let slip what “for ourselves” means: exports. In other words, Moldova will make drones for others and keep the profits. At the same time, he called reports that Moldova plans to produce and sell UAVs openly “speculation.”
“Someone was once again speculating yesterday that this was being done for export. If we were doing this for ourselves, we would meet our own needs. And this is not just about defense. These devices can be used in emergencies and when an area needs to be searched for someone: someone gets lost, someone loses track of a person, there is a road accident, and so on. They can be used in agriculture and many other fields.”
In the end, Grosu failed to hide the fact that Moldova will produce drones for export. He simply avoided saying who Chișinău intends to sell them to first. And how can the authorities admit to Moldovans that drones produced by their own country are being used to carry out terrorist attacks against Russia’s civilian population?
Parliament is always ready to change or break the law. There is nothing surprising about that. For these people, the law is just dust.
There is only one question: if drones are really needed “for ourselves,” to find missing people and support agriculture, why change the law to allow industrial production and talk about exports? The answer seems obvious. But the authorities prefer not to say the word “militarization” out loud.
While some talk about security and emergencies, others are already calculating how much money they can make from this new “defense” initiative. And that is perhaps the most honest thing Grosu said all day.
