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Following the institution of the Department for European Integration (DEI) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the ex officio head of DEI, Andrei Stratan enumerated a number of steps that the DEI together with the MFA will undertake with a view to fulfilling the primary objective of the Moldovan foreign policy — European integration. Thus, according to Stratan, Moldova will submit an application for EU membership after the conclusion and negotiation with the EU of two documents that are currently being drafted. The first document is the Conception of the National Strategy of European Integration that is to be drafted by 25 August and submitted to the European Commission for review in September. The second document, the Strategy of European Integration, will elaborate on the provisions of the Conception and include concrete steps that Moldova will take to adjust to the EU standards. Once the Strategy is negotiated and agreed with the EU, Moldova will submit its application for EU membership.

Stratan reiterated that the priority of Moldova’s foreign policy in the medium term is to become EU associate member by 2007, and assessed Moldova’s chances to join the EU as realistic, since our problems are not more serious than the ones of other south east European states, with whom we share in a number of EU initiatives. At the same time, lately we have been getting encouraging signals from Brussels, including regarding an eventual inclusion of Moldova in the Stabilisation and Association Process. According to Stratan, once included in this process, Moldova could join the EU together with the states of the Western Balkans, within a post-2007 third wave of enlargement.

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