Moldova's Foreign Minister thanks Ukraine for help evacuating Moldovan citizens from Gaza

Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu thanked Ukraine for helping to evacuate nine Moldovan citizens from the Gaza Strip.

Source: Nicu Popescu on Twitter (X), as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "9 more citizens of Moldova have been successfully evacuated from Gaza and arrived today in Chișinău. Many thanks to Ukraine and my friend Dmytro Kuleba [Ukraine’s Foreign Minister – ed.] for helping to bring our citizens home from Cairo. A new joint diplomatic success."

9 more citizens of Moldova have been successfully evacuated from Gaza and arrived today in Chișinău.

Many thanks to Ukraine and my friend @DmytroKuleba for helping to bring our citizens home from Cairo. A new joint diplomatic success. pic.twitter.com/NOAEbbFkPO — Nicu Popescu (@nicupopescu) November 11, 2023

Background: 

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine evacuated 160 Ukrainian citizens and nine citizens of Moldova from Gaza over the course of 10 November.
• Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on 7 November that 36 Moldovans have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Moldova, and thanked Romania and Ukraine for their assistance.

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