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Foreign Affairs on May 2–22, 2005
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e-journal #51 |
Informal CIS Summit
On May 8, on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the Victory Day, ten CIS Head of States gathered in Moscow for an informal CIS Summit, including Moldovan President, Vladimir Voronin. Absent were Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliev and Georgia’s Mikhail Saakashvili.
According to the Presidential press service, during the talks on adjusting national laws on social security of the veterans, President Voronin underscored the importance of clear-cut regulation of the pension allocation to veterans. Also President Voronin talked migration within CIS and joining efforts to fight international terrorism, cross-border terrorism, smuggling and trafficking in human beings.
While in Moscow, Voronin met his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocearean to examine the possibility of bilateral cooperation in winery, transportation, IT and culture.
At the end of the summit Vladimir Voronin together with other heads of state signed a Joint Declaration on Humanitarian Cooperation between CIS member states.
Bucharest SEECP Summit
On May 11, Bucharest hosted the 8th Summit of South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP). Albeit Republic of Moldova took part at the event as an observer, Moldovan diplomats strive to become full rights members.
President Voronin heading Moldovan delegation reiterated Moldova’s interest to join the structure, praised Romanian chairmanship over the process, and announced Moldova’s readiness to support a joint campaign on fighting organized crime and corruption. Voronin also informed that Moldova had already developed an action plan on its participation in the South-East European Cooperation Process.
Given that many regional organizations are complementary and RM took over the chairmanship over two of them, i.e. GUUAM and Organization for Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea region, President Voronin proposed hosting a joint meeting of the different fora: Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, South-East European Cooperation Process, GUUAM and Organization for Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea region. The agenda of such a forum might include multilateral cooperation in fighting terrorism, trafficking in human beings, organized crime, corruption, energy and infrastructure.
Participants to the Bucharest forum signed a Declaration of the 8th Summit of South-East European Cooperation Process. The document includes 29 points touching upon cooperation in economy, home security, and justice. For Chisinau the third point of the Declaration is the most relevant as it entrusted the Committee of Political Directors to reexamine Republic of Moldova’s application to be accepted as a full rights member.
Council of Europe Summit
The Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe grabbed the attention of the international public opinion for two days. The Third Summit was hosted by Warsaw, following similar summits in Vienna 1993 and Strasbourg 1997. This time however, the Summit gathered all the European countries except for Belarus.
President Vladimir Voronin headed the Moldovan delegation which had meetings among others with, Secretary General Terry Davis; Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldne; President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Giovanni Di Stasi; Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski, Latvia’s Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Lithuania’s Valdas Adamkus; as well as Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Boris Tarasiuk. High on the agenda of the meetings were resolution of the Transdniestrian conflict, enforcement of the EU-RM Action Plan, local government reform.
Along other Heads of State President Voronin signed three European Conventions: Convention on the prevention of terrorism, Convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds from crime and on the financing of terrorism, and Convention on action against trafficking in human beings.
Stability Pact’s Regional Table
On May 18 Moldovan delegation flew to Sofia for the Stability Pact’s Regional Table. Regional Table unites beneficiary and donor states as well as international organizations. The meeting of the Regional Table was preceded by a day (17 May) of theme-focused Working Table meetings where issues of regional ownership, regional infrastructure and energy and defence conversion were debated. During the first table “Democracy and Human Rights” discussion centered around boosting cross-border cooperation on “Education and Youth” dimension.
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