Moldovan delegation is in Moscow to continue discussions “in the spirit of agreements reached by Voronin and Putin”

A delegation of the Republic of Moldova went to Moscow on January 30 to continue the discussions in the spirit of the understandings reached by the President of Moldova Vladimir Putin and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the presidential press service informs, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. The delegation is composed of the Minister of Reintegration Vasili Sova, presidential adviser on political matters Mark Tkachuk and head of the Treaties Division of the Foreign Ministry’s International Law Department Dumitru Socolan. No other details are available. During Moldovan president’s visit to Moscow a week ago, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Vladimir Voronin significantly contributed to the consolidation of unity of the Russian and Moldovan peoples, the Moldovan presidential press service informed. According to the cited source, Putin said that that the meeting with Vladimir Voronin was a good occasion to discuss the entire range of issues related to the bilateral relations between Russia and Moldova. Vladimir Voronin pointed to the positive trends in the bilateral relations between Moldova and Russian in the past two years. “Each year, we move to a new stage of the integration and strategic partnership between our states, in compliance with the agreements that we reached in 2006 in Minsk and then in 2007 in Dushanbe,” Vladimir Voronin said in Moscow. Experts say that as the previous meetings of the two presidents, the meeting of January 22 was a mystery because not much was known about the subjects discussed there. As that was the last meeting with Putin as head of state, there was probably great hope that the meeting will produce a positive result for Moldova basing on the package deal invoked by the Moldovan authorities, but which is not widely known, Programme Coordinator of the Foreign Policy Association Radu Vrabie told Info-Prim Neo. Radu Vrabie supposed that the two heads of state discussed three aspects and namely Moldova’s neutrality, the recognition of the Russian property in Transnistria and the economic investments that Russia could make in Moldova. Recently, the Russian media announced that Russia’s Central Election Commission intends to open in Tiraspol ten polling stations for the presidential elections that will be held in Russia on March 2, 2008.