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The President Vladimir Voronin attended the informal summit of heads of state of the CIS. The meeting was prompted by the 300 anniversary of the Russian City of Sankt Petersburg. CIS officials examined on the occasion the state of affairs in the world in the context of events in Iraq, the issue of extending the mandate of collective peacekeeping forces in Abhasia etc. During the visit Voronin met the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev, and the two agreed to expand by 8 new agreements, ready for signature, the existent bilateral judicial framework for co-operation, which includes at present 18 agreements.

President Voronin met on 3 June 2003 Luca Barbone, Regional; Director of the World Bank for Moldova, who introduced the new WB Country Director Edward Brown. During the meetings with the president and other Moldovan officials, Barbone said that for Moldova to receive a new instalment from the SAC-III credit, the pension system needs to be revised, the Law on Inspection before Expedition needs to be revised, and the winemaking enterprises be privatised. It was last week, though, that the draft law on inspection before expedition was adopted in a new wording and it is believed that this new draft will pass well the expertise of international financial institutions experts. Mr Barbone stressed out the need to re-consider the facilities on tariffs on telecommunications introduced during the electoral campaign through the socially and/or probably electorally oriented decision of the Minister of transports and Communications Vasile Zgardan, who was the communist candidate for the position of General Mayor of Chisinau. Referring to the Strategy of Economic growth and Poverty Alleviation (SCERS), Luca Barbone recommended to extend the term of drafting it till November 2003 in order to produce a better strategy including with the contribution from the civil society and rationalise the expenditure related to the implementation of this strategy.

On the following day, Vladimir Voronin met the Prime Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Veaceslav Trubnikov, whose visit is alleged to have had to do with the dismissal of his Moldovan counterpart Ion Capatina. The two discussed about the Transdnistrian conflict resolution efforts, the subjects to be put up for debate at the future meetings of the Moldovan-Russian Intergovernmental Commission which will examine and conclude several draft bilateral agreements that could be signed during the visit to Moldova in autumn 2003 of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On the occasion of the 21st session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Black See Economic Co-operation (PABSEC), President Voronin met with the leaders of the 11 parliamentary groups attending the event. During the meeting with the Chair of the Superior Chamber of the Russian Duma Serghei Mironov, the latter reiterated the position of Russia on granting Transdnistria a special status. He also mentioned that if necessary the Russian authorities are willing to keep on Moldovan soil its peacekeeping forces.

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