Romania’s outgoing Ambassador to Moldova Daniel Ioniță will remain a friend of Moldova and an advocate of Moldova getting closer to the European Union, said Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Nicu Popescu during a meeting held to bid farewell to the Romanian diplomat.

According to Nicu Popescu, Ambassador Daniel Ioniță was able to strengthen the strategic bilateral partnership for European integration, focused on modernizing the Republic of Moldova through infrastructure projects aimed at celebrating the commonness of the language, history and culture shared with Romania.

“At the end of the meeting, I thanked Ambassador Daniel Ioniță for his significant personal contribution to the development and deepening of the Moldovan-Romanian relationship and wished him success in fulfilling his future activities and professional goals”, said Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu.

At the beginning of February, Daniel Ioniță was recalled from the position of Romanian Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova. Shortly afterwards, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposed Cristian-Leon Țurcanu as ambassador to the Republic of Moldova. Daniel Ioniță announced that he will be in Chisinau until the end of April.