(ANSA-AFP) - CHISINAU, FEB 16 - Moldova's parliament on
Thursday voted in a new government after the surprise
resignation of its prime minister, as tensions run high over
allegations of Russian attempts to destabilise the country on
the southern border of Ukraine. Parliament ratified the cabinet
of Prime Minister Dorin Recean, named by the pro-European
President Maia Sandu to replace Natalia Gavrilita, who quit last
Friday citing a lack of party support. Moldova, like Ukraine,
has asked for EU membership since Russia invaded Ukraine last
year, and analysts have suggested that Gavrilita was not moving
fast enough on the institutional and economic reforms needed to
join the bloc. The government reset came as the interior
ministry said debris of a Russian missile had been found in a
field in the north of the country, near its border with Ukraine.
Moldova had summoned the Russian ambassador last Friday over the
alleged violation of its airspace, amid claims by Ukraine's
President Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv had intercepted a Moscow
plan "to break the democracy of Moldova and establish control
over Moldova". (ANSA-AFP).
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