Vasile Dîncu, about the discussions regarding his dismissal: “A USR-ist mount. No one asked me to resign”

The Minister of Defense, Vasile Dîncu, states, regarding the fact that Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă is waiting for him to return to the country to discuss, that there will be “enlightening” discussions.

“I don’t understand at all why this mount was made in Bucharest and was put in this key that the president, the prime minister responded. Of course we will have discussions. We will certainly have a clarifying discussion on this topic, but I think it’s an idea that seems normal to me, it’s an idea you hear every day if you read the press magazine, so to speak”, he claims. Dîncu shows that, at this moment, “no one has asked for his resignation”, writes news.ro.

Dîncu was asked, on Thursday, on TVR Info, what is his position regarding the statements of President Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă.

“Yes, I will discuss, I am looking at the statements made by President Macron and other NATO representatives about the diplomatic path, which is never a path that can be set aside. It is the only possibility, diplomacy, to stop violence and conflict. What I said was that we must not leave Ukraine alone, that it has only one chance, that of fighting, fighting to the end, but that we must all exert diplomatic pressure for the Russians to withdraw and to stop the terrorist action”, said Dîncu.

He spoke of a “mount”.

“I don’t understand at all why this mount was made in Bucharest and was put in this key that the president, the prime minister responded. Of course we will have discussions. We will certainly have a clarifying discussion on this topic, but I think it’s an idea that seems normal to me, it’s an idea you hear every day if you read the press magazine, so to speak,” the Minister of Defense argued.

Dîncu added that “it is a USR-ist mount and our leaders answered some questions skillfully asked so that they could be answered especially like that”.

Asked if he is thinking of resigning, Dîncu replied: “No one has asked me to resign at this moment”.

When he was asked if he thought someone would ask him, the phone connection was suddenly cut off, TVR states.

President Klaus Iohannis said, when asked how he sees Vasile Dîncu’s statements according to which the only chance for peace would be a negotiation with Russia, that everyone must accept the fact that Ukrainians are the ones paying the blood price in this war and only Ukraine can decide what , how and when they negotiate. “This position is our official position, it is the official position of the EU and probably some of our dignitaries need to read the press magazine more frequently to find out these positions”, added the head of state.

Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă declared, on Thursday in Mioveni, when asked if he was considering a reshuffle of the Defense Minister, following his statements regarding the peace negotiations in Ukraine, that he was waiting for Minister Dîncu to return to the country from the NATO ministry.

“We have to have a discussion as open as possible to your opinion, which is not the Government’s and will have to make this aspect very clear”, the prime minister said.

USR summoned the Minister of Defense to the Parliament on Monday to explain the latest statements regarding the war in Ukraine, but the party’s representatives are waiting for Prime Minister Ciucă to dismiss Vasile Dîncu by then.