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Visit to Bulgaria

On May 19–21 President Voronin paid an official visit to Bulgaria. During his visit Vladimir Voronin met Bulgarian President Gheorghi Pirvanov; Bulgarian Prime-Minister Simeon de Saxa Coburg-Gotha; Chair of the Bulgarian Peoples’ Assembly Ognian Gerdjikov; Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy etc.

A raft of important documents were signed during the visit, among others: Free Trade Agreement; Cooperation Agreement in postal communication, telecommunication and information technology; Cooperative Agreement on fighting organized crime, traffic of drugs and psychotropic substances, terrorism and other types of offences; Memorandum on cooperation in the field of social security and labour market, Cooperative Agreement in the field of youth and sports, etc.

Noteworthy, Free Trade Agreement signed with Bulgaria is the last one Moldova signed with the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe member states that would gradually lead to the liberalization of foreign trade with those countries by 2007.

XI Summit of the Central European heads of state

On May 27–28, Romanian resort of Mamaia hosted the Summit of the Central European heads of state, with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin in attendance. According to the Presidency press service, topping Summit’s agenda were: effects of the first EU accession round; EU expansion, regional co-operation and stability in the Balkans; investment climate in Central and South-eastern Europe.

Of special interest to the Moldovan public opinion was the meeting of Moldovan and Romanian Presidents, especially given the ever worsening relations between the two countries. The Two considered the current status of bilateral relations with Vladimir Voronin “pointing to the need of continuing political dialogue at all levels and concluding some agreements equal to the status of international law mutual engagements” he also opted for “resuming consultations between expert groups working on the Basic Treaty and package of documents on the frontier regime”. Moreover President Voronin proposed a mechanism of scholarship exchange in education to be established between Moldova and Romania and called on his Romanian counterpart to issue a declaration supporting Moldovans in their efforts to build an independent state and referring to the “Moldovan language” as an element of their national identity. In the eyes of many the mere fact that Romanian President invited his Moldovan counterpart to the commemoration of Stefan the Great at Putna on July 2, 2004 was a clear sign that he would issue such a declaration.

Moldova — Romania Neighbourhood Program

The third session of the Joint Committee on Moldovan-Romanian Cooperation was held in Chisinau on May 11. Committee looked at projects that are to be implemented as part of the Moldova — Romania Neighbourhood Program launched within EU “new neighbours” policies. According to governmental sources, Memorandum on funding the projects for years 2004–2006 is due to be signed in September 2004. It is expected that Moldova would get 5 million Euro in aid as part of this program that would go for implementing projects in the field of cross-border cooperation, environment, healthcare, preventing and fighting organized crime, border security, encouraging interpersonal cooperation, etc.

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