The Interparliamentary Assembly of the Three Seas Initiative is to be created in 2019 and Moldova and Ukraine could be invited to cooperate, IPN reports, with reference to a news article of “Ukrinform”.
The information was communicated by the Marshal of the Sejm of Poland Marek Kuchcinski in the Three Seas Initiative Forum of Regions that took place in Jasionka near Rzeszów in Poland. “The parliaments of the countries of the Three Seas Initiative negotiate to create an interparliamentary assembly... We have the ambitious idea of inviting to cooperate countries that do not form part of the European Union, first of all Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, but the issue hasn’t been yet decided,” said Marek Kuchcinski.
The Three Seas Initiative is an informal cooperation platform and a geopolitical project initiated by Poland and Croatia. It acts as a forum between twelve European countries, namely Poland, Croatia Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Austria, Latvia, and Slovenia, to strengthen trade, energy, infrastructure and political cooperation. It is also known as the BABS Initiative as the member countries border with three European Seas - Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea.
The project started to be implemented in 2015, after Andrzej Duda was elected President of Poland.
In an interview given to IPN Agency, Poland’s Ambassador to Moldova Bartlomiej Zdaniuk said the U.S. President Donald Tramp, during his visit to Warsaw in 2017, supported the Three Seas Initiative that is intended to also consolidate the voice of the Easter-European counties, including in their dialogue with countries of Western Europe.
