SIS denounced two partnership agreements with the special services of the Russian Federation
The Intelligence and Security Service, after starting the necessary legal procedures, denounced the Partnership Agreement with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). Official notifications have been sent to the authorities of the Russian Federation. Also, the Service submitted strict measures, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, to denounce the cooperation agreement with the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR).
Starting from February 24, 2022, with the invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the cooperation relations of the SIS with the special services of the Russian Federation were stopped, so that the agreements given have no practical applicability, being in fact non-functional. The inconsistency and dissonance of the provisions of these agreements with the national interest and security of the Republic of Moldova argues the denunciation process initiated by the Intelligence and Security Service.
Moreover, the provisions of these agreements, signed in 1994, including the additional protocols, represented legal clauses invoked by the Russian Federation to argue the presence of representatives of the Russian special services in the region to the left of the Nistru in the Republic of Moldova. Thus, with the denunciation of these agreements, such "arguments" cannot be advanced by the Russian Federation.
"The Intelligence and Security Service does not maintain external partnership relations with similar structures of other states, which clearly defy the legislation and act to the detriment of national security, carry out subversive activities against the Republic of Moldova, including undermining the functionality of the state's democratic institutions, destabilizing the socio-political, economic situation and jeopardizing the territorial integrity of the country", reads a press release from the SIS.
