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MOLDOVAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT MOSCOW IN SEPTEMBER

05 august, 2019

Moldova’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Nicolae Popescu will visit Moscow at the beginning of September, he said in an interview with Radio Free Europe.

In his words, the Sides are now shaping an agenda of the visit, with an emphasis put on trade and economic cooperation and on the need to de-block the exportation of Moldovan agricultural produce to the Russian market.

“Moldova is interested to normalize relations with the Russian Federation so that our producers could export more to the Russian market. Exports to whatever market – to Russia, Ukraine, China, Georgia or Turkey – create jobs and salaries to workers”, said Popescu.

The Minister stressed that Moldova will continue its European integration, “and this is even not a subject of discussion with anybody. But Chisinau wants also healthy and calm relations with Moscow”.

“Moldova shall not integrate into some post-Soviet structures. And at no rate whatever can the Eurasian Economic Union be Moldova’s foreign political goal. Good relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus are important tasks of our external policy, but we are not speaking of integration into post-Soviet organizations, including the Eurasian Economic Union. Moldova’s only integration objective is the European Union”, stated the Moldovan Foreign Minister.

Touching on the resumption of external financial assistance for Moldova, Nicolae Popescu said that over shorter than 2 months, the new Moldovan leadership have opened doors and ways to dialog with foreign partners.

“The previous country leadership was making pro-Western statements, but due to its domestic policy, due to corruption and anti-democratic abuses Moldova was isolated from the West. We all were eye-witnesses of a false pro-Westernism and pro-Europeism. We have resumed high-level communication with the European Commission, and with Angela Merkel, and with Romania. In this sense, Moldova’s relations with the West, the United States and the European Union now are better than 3-4 months or a year ago”, presumes Popescu.

In his words, “A considerable part of the foreign assistance has already arrived or will come in the nearest days or weeks”.

“There are certain conditions for Moldova, but also there is confidence from behalf of the European Union and other international donors that this Government will meet these conditions, including the ones pertaining to democratization and transparency of state expenditures”, said the foreign minister.

Popescu announced that at the end of August he will go to Bucharest to attend an annual conference of Romanian ambassadors working in foreign countries. This will be already his 3rd voyage to Romania since his appointment as minister.

Nicolae Popescu also expressed confidence that the Iasi-Chisinau gas pipeline will be put into operation during his ministerial mandate.

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