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Moldova`s premier, EU leaders to discuss economic integration.
BRUSSELS, March 24 (Itar-Tass) - Moldova's Prime Minister Vlad Filat
arrives on an official visit in Brussels Wednesday to discuss the
prospects for economic cooperation at talks with EU leaders.
He is expected to take part in a meeting of the consultative group of
donor countries steered by the European Commission and to meet with
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament
speaker Jerzy Buzek.
Preparations for the beginning of talks on the agreements on free
trade and association will be the highlight of Filat's talks in Brussels.
One of them, the agreement on association, represents a new form of EU's
cooperation with the states seeking closer integration with it but having
no chances for full-fledged membership.
Discussions of an agreement of this kind should begin shortly between
the EU and Ukraine. These documents should embrace the areas like the
implementation of civic rights and freedoms, commitment to European
values, the unification of separate legislative norms, and the easing up
of economic contacts and travel visa issuance procedures.
The issue of the dragged-out conflict around Moldova's much-troubled
independence-seeking Dniester region -- widely known in the West under the
name of Transnistria -- will inescapably be raised at the talks in
Brussels.
The European institutions play a passive role in it. In 2003, they
compiled a list of twenty top officials of the unrecognized Dniester
Republic, including its President Igor Smirnov, who are denied entry of
the European Union's territory. Brussels claims they are responsible for
the lack of progress at the talks on settling the conflict, which broke
out at the end of 1991 when Moldova declared itself independent from the
former USSR.
This ban was supported by the U.S.
The Dniester Republic retaliated with a February 2003 ban on entry of
its territory by a number of European and U.S. diplomats and Moldovan
government officials.
The EU imposed a 'provisional moratorium' on the ban in 2008 but left
the blacklist as such intact, which means that the provision for sanctions
can be reactivated at any time.
arrives on an official visit in Brussels Wednesday to discuss the
prospects for economic cooperation at talks with EU leaders.
He is expected to take part in a meeting of the consultative group of
donor countries steered by the European Commission and to meet with
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament
speaker Jerzy Buzek.
Preparations for the beginning of talks on the agreements on free
trade and association will be the highlight of Filat's talks in Brussels.
One of them, the agreement on association, represents a new form of EU's
cooperation with the states seeking closer integration with it but having
no chances for full-fledged membership.
Discussions of an agreement of this kind should begin shortly between
the EU and Ukraine. These documents should embrace the areas like the
implementation of civic rights and freedoms, commitment to European
values, the unification of separate legislative norms, and the easing up
of economic contacts and travel visa issuance procedures.
The issue of the dragged-out conflict around Moldova's much-troubled
independence-seeking Dniester region -- widely known in the West under the
name of Transnistria -- will inescapably be raised at the talks in
Brussels.
The European institutions play a passive role in it. In 2003, they
compiled a list of twenty top officials of the unrecognized Dniester
Republic, including its President Igor Smirnov, who are denied entry of
the European Union's territory. Brussels claims they are responsible for
the lack of progress at the talks on settling the conflict, which broke
out at the end of 1991 when Moldova declared itself independent from the
former USSR.
This ban was supported by the U.S.
The Dniester Republic retaliated with a February 2003 ban on entry of
its territory by a number of European and U.S. diplomats and Moldovan
government officials.
The EU imposed a 'provisional moratorium' on the ban in 2008 but left
the blacklist as such intact, which means that the provision for sanctions
can be reactivated at any time.
