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Meeting with diplomatic corps accredited to the Republic of Moldova

On January 21 Vladimir Voronin met with representatives of diplomatic missions accredited to Chisinau. On this occasion President reiterated accession to EU as on the top priorities of the country foreign policy, which according to him was the road “toward a sovereign and united, democratic and prosperous Moldova”.

In this respect, Mr. Voronin requested the assistance of the countries represented by the foreign diplomats in implementing Republic of Moldova — EU Action Plan, which was recently approved by the European Commission and Council for General Affairs and Foreign Relations of the EU Council. President Voronin informed the diplomats that Moldova had already started developing a National Program on Implementing Republic of Moldova — EU Action Plan, as well as enforcing the Joint EU — Council of Europe Program on adjusting the legal framework.

The President also referred to the parliamentary elections due on March 6 which would be held “in accordance with European standards, be fair and transparent and be based on the free choice.^[1]” That was in line with the Presidential initiative launched on July 5, 2004 “Guarantees of democratic processes and freedom of mass media”. However, being now halfway through the campaign one may not say that the standards are fully observed, fact also confirmed by the two reports on monitoring electoral campaign produced by a group of NGOs members of the “Coalition 2005”.

Referring to regional cooperation, President Voronin mentioned that together with cooperation in EU accession they were seen as “in line with improving and modernising our partnership relations with Russian Federation and CIS”.

Vladimir Voronin announced that Republic of Moldova would open six new missions this year in Sweden, Serbia and Montenegro, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

In the end, the President outlined the “major priorities of the Republic of Moldova foreign policy”, namely:

• “Republic of Moldova accession to EU;
• Settling Transdniestiran conflict and reintegrating the country;
• Consolidating Moldova’s position on regional, European and international markets;
• Consolidating and developing regional dimension of the foreign policy;
• Making the activity in international organisations more efficient, especially in EU, OSCE, UN, Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, GUUAM, CSI;
• Bolstering bilateral ties”.

None of the aforesaid explicitly refers to our relations with US, our neighbours for that matter, Ukraine and Romania. Albeit, the very same day a breakthrough in our relations with Romania happened, while Romanian President Basescu paid an official visit to Chisinau.

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