The commission for printing the "Moldovan Encyclopaedia" will come together for its first meeting on Friday, April 27. According to the press service of the Academy of Science of Moldova (ASM), the head of the commission, Mariana Slapac, vice president of ASM, says that at the first meeting there will be discussed “ideas on the concept of this great scientific work”. The respective commission was constituted via the Decree of the Moldovan President on Monday 26, 2007. According to the presidential press service, the issuance of this encyclopaedia is determined by the current development level of the society and by the importance of knowledge “in the formation of a multilaterally developed personality”. According to the same source, the head of state considers that the goal of this project is to “ease the large public’s access to information from diverse fields, taking into account the importance of encyclopaedic knowledge for the formation of a multilaterally developed personality”. The commission, which will deal with the issuing of the “Moldovan Encyclopaedia”, is composed of representatives of the Academy of Science, rectors of State and Technical Universities, Gheorghe Rusnac and Ion Bostan, writer Ion Druta, Minister of Culture and Tourism, Artur Cozma, and Minister of Education and Youth, Victor Tvircun, communist MP Victor Stepaniuc etc.