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On 9 April 2003, the heads of states and governments of the Member States of the South East European Co-operation Process (SEECP) met in Belgrade. The SEECP members are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Serbia and Montenegro. Croatia enjoys observer status. A Moldovan delegation led by President Voronin attended the meeting.

In its speech to the meeting, President Voronin expressed hope that at the next SEECP meeting in Sarajevo, Moldova will participate as a full-fledged member and will thus be able to fully contribute to this regional initiative.

President Voronin met Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, whom he informed of the Transdnistrian conflict resolution process calling for EU more active involvement in the process of setting up Moldovan-Ukrainian shared customs posts.

In addition, President Voronin had bilateral meetings with the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mirco Sarovic, with whom he signed the Agreement on Mutual Encouragement of Investments, the President of Bulgaria Gheorghi Pirvanov; the President of the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” Boris Trajkovski and the President of Croatia Stjepan Mesic. During these meetings the possibilities of intensifying the political and economic ties between parties was considered.

Bulgaria proposed to set up the SEECP in 1997.

Vladimir Voronin attended the European Conference in Athens on 16–17 April 2003. At the conference, the 10 EU accession states signed the EU Accession Treaty. President Voronin congratulated his European colleagues with the enlargement of the EU, reiterated the importance of Moldova’s integration into the EU and requested for Moldova a similar status with the one granted to the South East European states. During the conference, President Voronin met with Javier Solana, Secretary General of the EU Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The two officials talked about the Transdnistrian conflict resolution efforts and Javier Solana promised the Moldovan party that, in the context of EU eastern enlargement, the EU will get involved more actively in the conflict resolution efforts.

Vladimir Voronin also met the Romanian President Ion Iliescu with whom he discussed the ways of upgrading the status of the joint Moldovan-Romanian Inter-governmental Commission, and the Ukrainian President Leonid Kucima, with whom he talked about the process of setting up joint Moldovan-Ukrainian customs posts.

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