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Bucharest and Chishinau, about a common future

Bucharest will support the Republic of Moldova in its effort to embark on a European path and to carry out bilateral projects jointly with Romania, the Speaker of the Romanian Senate, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, said in Chishinau on Wednesday. During a meeting with the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, the two sides agreed that Moldova’s European perspective is the only option for the Moldovan citizens to have confidence in the future of their country. It also offers solutions to modernise the state economically, socially and institutionally.

Bucharest and Chishinau, about a common future
Bucharest and Chishinau, about a common future

, 08.05.2014, 13:12

Bucharest will support the Republic of Moldova in its effort to embark on a European path and to carry out bilateral projects jointly with Romania, the Speaker of the Romanian Senate, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, said in Chishinau on Wednesday. During a meeting with the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, the two sides agreed that Moldova’s European perspective is the only option for the Moldovan citizens to have confidence in the future of their country. It also offers solutions to modernise the state economically, socially and institutionally.



Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian crisis, Calin Popescu Tariceanu has underlined the need to build national consensus, at the level of the political class in the Republic of Moldova, for the country to reach its target and enjoy a European perspective.



Calin Popescu Tariceanu: “There is a consistent pro-European front in the Republic of Moldova, which is aware that this is the best option for the future, an option which means democracy and welfare”.



Calin Popescu Tariceanu has however noted that we can also speak of indecision at the level of the Moldovan society as regards the path that the Republic of Moldova should follow. “I didn’t hesitate in telling the Moldovan Prime Minister that sometimes I try to imagine and ask myself what things would have looked like in Romania, if it hadn’t been a NATO and EU member state. I think the same question should be asked about Moldova”, the Speaker of the Romanian Senate said. He added that the threats to Moldova’s security are fewer than those to Ukraine, and that the Moldovan citizens should ask themselves if they consider the situation from Moldova’s or from Russia’s perspective.



Calin Popescu Tariceanu believes that if the current Moldovan opposition, the Communists’ Party, wins the parliamentary elections due this year, the Republic of Moldova runs the risk of seeing its European path interrupted or deviated.



In turn, the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca said Romania and Moldova are going through a period marked by very good relations, which offer them the opportunity to develop important bilateral economic projects, such as the interconnection of the energy systems, Moldova’s connection to gas supplies from Romania and building several cross-border bridges. The Republic of Moldova further counts on Romania’s support, in the effort to follow its European path, the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca underlined during the talks he held with Calin Popescu Traiceanu, in the Romanian language, which is the official state language spoken both in Bucharest and Chishinau.


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