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Europe
Greece OKs military training for Moldova
2003-11-30
Greece has signed an agreement to train and help modernize the Moldavian military. The project will seek to upgrade the Moldavian military to NATO standards. The military cooperation accord was recently signed in Athens by Greek Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou and his Moldavian counterpart Victor Caiciuc. Under the agreement, Greece will help Moldavia organize, train and modernize its military.
Greece? They want Greece to organize, train and modernize their military?
Officials said the Greek effort aims to bring Moldavia into NATO. All of the Greek training and upgrade will be in acordance with NATO standards. Papantoniou said Greece supports the accession of Moldavia into the European Union.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#2  I suspect Greek aspirations to dominance in the Balkans, probably. But how does this play against Greek relations with Russia, and Russian pressure on Moldova?
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-12-1 11:15:05 AM  

#1  There's actually some historical ties between Greece and Moldavia that go way back -- in 1821, the war of independence that ended up freeing Greece from Ottoman rule -- that revolution was first proclaimed in Moldavia.

Even though the Moldavia-Wallachia front of that revolution was crushed by the Ottomans, ofcourse, leaving only the revolution that took place in Greek soil victorious.

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Other than that historical trivia, I'm not sure what's the game being played here.
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2003-11-30 12:54:01 PM  

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