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Moldova regains right to vote in UNESCO

Moldova regained its right to vote in UNESCO, which it lost in 2001 because of membership arrears in the amount of 1.35 million dollars. Regain of the right to vote means a better image on the international arena, and possibility to table concrete proposals within sittings of representative institutions of UNESCO.

Moldova became member of UNESCO in 1992. Press releases announcing the event do not say whether Moldova has paid the arrears.

Settlement of the Transnistrian problem — a precondition for entry in E.U.

Guido Podesta, chairman of the E.U.-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee, said in a recent interview with the Romanian publication Adevarul (True) that Moldova holds chances to join the E.U. if it is capable to settle the Transnistria problem. Moldova holds bigger chances to join the E.U. than Turkey, which is negotiating the adhesion conditions with Brussels, due to the small number of residents and limited territory.

The European official said that the Moldova-Russia relations are complicated, especially in the context of the Transnistrian settlement issue.

On the other hand, Podesta indicated the economic doctrine of the ruling Communist Party, which unfits the market economy principles, among internal problems of Moldova that should be solved before entry in E.U.

Guido Podesta is a member of the European Parliament since 1994, and he was deputy chairman of the European Parliament in charge with relations with candidate countries and Balkan countries in 1997–2004. Also, he had earlier held the office of co-chairman of the Moldova-E.U. interparliamentary cooperation committee.

OSCE support for Moldova

Moldovan Foreign and European Integration Minister Andrei Stratan met with OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel, foreign minister of Slovenia. Stratan solicited the inclusion of problems faced by Moldova — settlement of the Transnistrian conflict and withdrawal of Russian troops from Moldova, in compliance with the commitments that the Russian Federation assumed at the 1999 Istanbul OSCE summit — in the final documents of the December-scheduled ministerial summit of OSCE in Ljubljana.

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