Moldovan citizens will receive urgent visas for Romania

Moldovan citizens will receive visas free of charge after Romania and Moldova sign the intergovernmental agreement, and the visas will be issued urgently, Romanian Prime Minister Cain Popescu-Tariceanu told on Tuesday, October 10, on the occasion of signing the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) by the Republic of Moldova. The Premier proposed to organize in 2007 an intergovernmental meeting in the framework of which the subjects of common interest will be discussed. "We want the future projects regarding the development of transport and energy infrastructure, to be reflected so that they allow Moldova to come close to EU space, but, on the other hand, to use our strategic position in order to use this market with a huge potential which is Russia, to our and EU’s advantage", Premier Tariceanu said. As regards the maters related to the Transnistrian zone, Tariceanu asserted that it is necessary a solution “in European spirit, in order not to affect Moldova’s integrity and sovereignty on its entire territory". The South-East European Cooperation Process is a non-institutionalized regional cooperation structure. It appeared in 1996, when Bulgaria organized a meeting of the Foreign ministers of the states in region, creating a new form of cooperation, subsequent to the appearance of new states on the territory of former Yugoslavia. As a forum for political dialog and consultation, SEECP is an instrument for promoting the participating states’ interests of integration into the political, security, economic and Euro-Atlantic structures. The states participating in the SEECP are the founding countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and Turkey. Bosnia and Herzegovina from February 2001, Croatia from October 2004, and Moldova from May 2006 are states participating in the SEECP. Romania is the country in charge of SEECP Charter, the document being adopted in 2000, in Bucharest.