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Activity of the President on January 12–25, 2004
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e-journal #23 |
New goals for the new year
During a meeting on January 15, President Voronin reviewed the Government success in 2003 and outlined new tasks for 2004. The latter include improving the legal framework on insolvency and obligatory medical insurance. President stressed the importance of avoiding companies “bankruptcy on purpose”, ensuring “that company leadership would assume responsibility for insolvency”, supporting companies “in need because of some objective reasons” and preventing the economy from ruining. In addition, Government was entrusted to ensure a smooth transition to the obligatory medical insurance via “an efficient communication campaign aimed at informing medical staff and company leadership on the gist of the reform and financial sources needed to provide quality medical assistance”.
Meeting with Rudolf Perina
Shortly after President Voronin and US Ambassador Hodges agreed on tightening bilateral relations between Moldova and US, a special US State Department negotiator on Eurasia conflicts, Rudolf Perina paid an official visit to Chisinau. During a meeting on January 19, the Two “exchanged opinions on the current negotiation status on Transdnistria” and ways of speeding up the resolution of the conflict. According to a press release of the Presidency, the Two also stressed “the need to join the efforts in speeding up the peaceful resolution” of the Transdnistrian conflict.
Reiterating European integration goal
During a meeting with diplomatic corps accredited to Moldova on January 22, President Voronin reiterated Moldova’s interest to join EU. Voronin pointed that the country “was ready to comply with EU criteria, to gradually enforce communitary policies, to bring national standards and legislation in accordance with the communitary ones”. According to the President, European integration was justified as a priority of the foreign policy by the social consensus on the issue, as well as by the latest economic achievements that have had a social impact as well. President indicated that he was aware of the fact that “the positive trends are only the first step towards economic recovery and the entire society would have to joint the efforts in conducting the structural reforms that would allow Republic of Moldova to join the large European family”. The President promised that the efforts undertaken in 2003 in view of European integration “will be continued at a bigger scale this year”.
We are pleased to find that President acknowledged that our success on the road of European integration is heavily reliant firstly on our efforts, and only then on the support we do get from EU. An illustration to this effect is that the President referred firstly to the need of strengthening our capacity to “promote the reforms in line with EU requirements” and only then to Moldova’s interest to have a permanent office of the European Commission in Chisinau and to tighten its ties with European countries.
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