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Foreign Affairs on July 21 – August 3, 2003
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e-journal #12 |
Meeting between Vladimir Voronin and Ion Iliescu
On 1 August 2003, President Voronin met with the Romanian President Ion Iliescu. Although the press service of the Moldovan Presidency had announced that the major object of discussions would be the signature of the Basic Political Treaty between Moldovan and Romania (drafted in 2000), the Two Presidents did not go rather than agree to revitalise the co-operation between intergovernmental commissions and take a series of joint actions to securitise the Moldovan-Romanian border. The Romanian side has found the Basic Political Treaty in its current version as unacceptable due to a number of changes made to it by the Moldovan side. And since a consensus on the Treaty is unlikely to be reached soon, the Romanian President suggested that it is replaced by some sort of bilateral agreements, as, for example, a joint declaration at the level of heads of state or a set of documents on the legal regime of the joint border.
Although the Two Presidents expressed hope that the meeting would mark the end of the deadlock that the Moldovan-Romanian relations had seen for some time following a number of mutually incriminating statements, the results of the meeting are less than modest. In addition, it is at least surprising that the subject of Moldova’s objective of European integration was not discussed at any length; the support of Romania, which is a neighbour state and expects to join the EU in 2007, is not only logical but also absolutely necessary for achieving such an objective.
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