The intergovernmental agreement for non-reimbursable technical assistance with Romania will be restored and extended. There will be constituted a technical working group for drafting the agreement, as Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița and her Romanian counterpart Florin Cîțu agreed in a telephone discussion, IPN reports.
At the end of last March, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania announced the termination of the agreement under which Romania was to provide €100 million to Moldova in financial assistance because then interim Government of the Republic of Moldova didn’t have the necessary powers to complete the procedures for signing the agreement. The protocol wasn’t signed by the Chicu Government. After Ion Chicu tendered his resignation, the interim Government didn’t have powers to sign this protocol.
In another development, the two Premiers agreed to start preparations for staging a new joint meeting of the Governments in Chisinau.
Also, Natalia Gavrilița discussed over the phone with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal. The Arabian official confirmed his readiness to pay a visit to Chisinau at the invitation of the President Maia Sandu, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the proclaiming of the independence of the Republic of Moldova. Natalia Gavrilița and Denys Shmyhal will have a bilateral meeting on August 28.
While Denys Shmyhal will be in Chisinau, there will be broached such issues as the removal of the bilateral commercial barriers, environmental issues, cooperation in the energy sector, regulation of the ownership rights, completion of the demarcation of the state boarder, functioning of the hydropower complex on the Nistru etc.
The two officials discussed the steps that need to be taken to start the building works on the Cosăuți-Yampil Bridge and the resumption of the activity of the Moldovan-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission on bilateral trade and economic cooperation, whose last meeting was held in Odessa on September 18-19, 2017.
