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Foreign Affairs on September 16–30, 2008

European Integration

EU-Moldova PSC Troika Meeting

Brussels hosted the Meeting of the European Union — Moldova Political and Security Committee (PSC) Troika on September 17. The meeting focussed on recent developments in settling the Transnistrian conflict, results of the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) to Moldova and Ukraine and progresses made by Moldova in the European integration process. In particular, EU representatives have reconfirmed the EU support for resuming the Transnistria settlement negotiations in the “5+2” format with the condition to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Moldova. Participants also discussed advantages of consolidating and extending the EUBAM mandate.

Launching of Cooperation Platform of the EU-Moldova Mobility Partnership

The Cooperation Platform of the EU-Moldova Mobility Partnership was launched at a meeting in Chisinau on September 23, with the participation of representatives of the European Commission, EU member states participating in the Mobility Partnership and Moldova’s representatives[1]. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Valeriu Ostalep has outlined Moldova’s priorities within the Mobility Partnership:

In their turn, EU representatives stressed that the migration keeps being a challenge for the EU and a partnership between origin, transit and destination countries is the only way to resolve this problem. At the same time, the launching of Mobility Partnership with Moldova proves the importance of Moldova for the EU, with European officials expressing optimism that the first results of this partnership will be harvested starting 2009.

8th Meeting of the EU-Moldova Cooperation Subcommittee 3 on Customs, Cross-Border Cooperation, Money Laundering, Drugs, Illegal Migration

On September 24, 2008 Chisinau hosted the 8th Meeting of the EU-Moldovan Cooperation Subcommittee 3 on Customs, Cross-Border Cooperation, Money Laundering, Drugs and Illegal Migration. The talks of the parties focussed on progress made by Moldova in areas which rest with the competence of the subcommittee: the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, anti-corruption fight, migration and asylum, border management including cooperation with EUBAM, implementation of the visa facilitation and readmission agreements, fight against organised crime, cooperation in the area of justice and police (according to press releases by MFAEI).

Launching of TWINNING project

The first TWINNING project between the European Commission and the Republic of Moldova was released in Chisinau on September 17, with the Moldovan Parliament as beneficiary[2]. The project on Support to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova aims to help consolidating the democracy and the rule of law in Moldova, adjust the Moldovan legislation, norms and standards to EU norms, and strengthen the role of the Moldovan Parliament in the legislative process. The project funded by the European Commission has a one-million-euro budget, a two-year term and will be implemented jointly with the Parliaments of France, Hungary and Moldova. It plans training courses, seminars, workshops and study visits grouped into four components: 1) supporting the reorganisation of the Parliament apparatus; 2) strengthening the capacity of the Parliament to harmonise the Moldovan legislation with EU regulations; 3) assessing the impact of regulations; 4) consolidating the parliamentary control on the Government.

Bilateral cooperation

Republic of Moldova — Italy

During September 28–30, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Valeriu Ostalep was on an official visit to Italy. During meetings with Italian officials the Moldovan deputy minister has tackled issues relating to the need to develop and intensify Moldovan-Italian cooperation in the political, commercial-economic, social and security fields; Moldova’s position regarding the future Moldovan-community legal agreement and key areas of cooperation with the EU which raise a major interest of Moldova; situation of Moldovan migrants in Italy. In particular, the sides stressed the necessity to sign Social Security Agreements, intensify cooperation between Interior Ministries of the two states, developing bilateral commercial-economic cooperation via the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Moldova, efficiently implementing the visa facilitation agreement between Moldova and EU, including through the future Italian Embassy in Chisinau. The Moldovan delegation sought Italy’s support to get a mandate of negotiations on the new agreement between Moldova and EU by the end of 2008.

New foreign ambassadors in Chisinau

On September 24, 2008 Moldovan President Moldova Vladimir Voronin received credentials of foreign ambassadors to Moldova as follows:

Multilateral cooperation

Republic of Moldova — Council of Europe
ECHR decisions

The European Court of Human Rights has decided on cases Salinschi vs. Moldova and Prepelita vs. Moldova in the period concerned. In the first case, Salinschi has invoked the violation of Article 6 (1) of the Convention (right to a fair trial) and Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the Convention (protection of property). The Court ascertained that the applicant did not use all internal ways to appeal and turned down his application. In the second case, the Court has established the violation of Article 6 (1) of ECHR and Article 1 of Protocol 1 to ECHR, as a judicial decision which awarded victory to the applicant nine years ago was not executed. The Court ordered Moldova to transfer to the applicant the home and field claimed for 3 years or to pay 25,000 euro compensation. In addition, the Court ordered pecuniary damages worth 8,700 Euros for the applicant.

Republic of Moldova — SEECP

On September 26, Chisinau hosted the Meeting of Political Directors of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) organised under the auspices of the Moldovan SEECP Presidency. The meeting discussed latest political developments in the South East European area, progresses made in the process of regional cooperation and consolidation of cooperation between SEECP and Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), presented prioritiesRO and calendar of eventsRO within the Moldovan SEECP Presidency. A joint sitting of the SEECP Political Directors and Directors of European Affairs was organised at the end of the meeting.

Republic of Moldova — United Nations

On September 29, 2008, Moldovan Deputy Premier Andrei Stratan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, attended the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. He addressed the meetingRO and expressed Moldova’s position regarding issues from the agenda, in particular, the U.N. role in managing world problems (economic, political and security), settlement of conflicts in various areas of the world, including Transnistria, risk of international terrorism, consequences of changing climate (according to press releases by MFAEI).

  1. ↑ The Moldova-EU Mobility Partnership was signed during the meeting of the EU Council for Justice and Home Affairs in Luxembourg on June 5, 2008. The Moldova-EU Mobility Partnership aims to consolidate the cooperation between EU and Moldova in terms of management of legal migration, combat and prevention of illegal migration and trafficking in human beings. EU member states participating in the Partnership via various projects related to the migration policy are: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Hungary.
  2. ↑ TWINNING is an EU concept initially aimed to help candidate states to get the skills and experience needed to adopt, implement and apply the EU legislation. Starting 2006, this assistance mechanism was made available to member states of the European Neighbourhood Policy.
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