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MOLDOVA AND TURKEY SIGN 5 AGREEMENTS ON COOPERATION

18 octomber, 2018

Moldova and Turkey have signed 5 cooperation agreements. The signature ceremony took place on Wednesday night following a meeting of Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a meeting of governmental delegations.

In particular, the Parties signed a Supplement to the Agreement on cancelling entry visas for citizens’ voyages to Moldova and Turkey. The new document stipulates the possibility to travel without even passports – only with each country’s domestic identity cards [in Moldova – Buletin de Identitate] on hands.

The Moldovan and Turkish Defense Ministers signed an Agreement on training military personnel. It stipulates the interaction of the Sides in training specialists in Turkish military medical academies and in cartographic schools, participation in joint field exercises, partnership in the logistic spheres, exchange of information in the sphere of military justice.

Moldova and Turkey signed also the Agreement on cooperation in the transport sphere. It stipulates that Moldovan transporters will no more need to obtain permits for transit via Turkey.

The two countries signed also the Agreements on cooperation in the field of youth and sports affairs, and on the functioning of Moldo-Turkish Suleiman Demirel Lyceum in the village of Congaz in Gagauzia.

Opening the Wednesday’s meeting, the Moldovan Prime Minister particularly thanked the President of Turkey for the assistance Ankara had rendered in the United Nations Organization at adopting the UN Resolution named “On a Complete and Unconditional Withdrawal of Foreign Military Forces from the Territory of the Republic of Moldova”.

“This document is extremely important for us, and we highly value this support of yours’”, stated Pavel Filip.

He highly appreciated the current development of the Moldova-Turkey relations and expressed hope that after this official visit of president Erdogan, the bilateral relations will be developing yet more fruitfully.

“Our Presidents signed on Wednesday the Agreement on the establishment of the Council for Strategic Cooperation. As a Co-Chairman of the Council, I will be doing all in my powers for our relationship to further develop on the rise”, said Pavel Filip.

On Thursday, the President of Turkey went to the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia. Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed at a press briefing in Chisinau on Wednesday that “Gagauzia, where Gagauz Turks live, plays a special, important role in the Turkey-Moldova relationship”. Erdogan spoke out for “a soonest-possible adoption of amendments to the corresponding Moldovan legislation that are necessary for the Gagauzes”.

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