Project on transborder cooperation is launched in Ismail, Ukraine

The representatives of local public administrations and NGOs in Cahul and Cantemir raions, Galati county and Odessa region within “The Lower Danube” Euroregion intensify their transborder partnership. A project in this regard will be launched Wednesday November 29, in Ismail, Ukraine. After a number of fact-finding visits and conferences in each city, there will be formulated proposals for drawing up concrete projects on intensification of the transborder cooperation in the region. The creation of the “The Lower Danube” is an incentive to the transborder cooperation in diverse fields between the administrative-territorial units adjacent to Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, located in the region of the lower Danube and Prut rivers. Romanian and Ukrainian partners carried out several projects in the field of infrastructure development, cultural and economic cooperation, says Veaceslav Gututui, director executive of INRECO Moldova, NGO partner of the project “Intensification of transborder cooperation within “The Lower Danube” Euroregion. According to Gututui, the Moldovan side has also implemented certain projects, but it must be more active. The accomplishment of the experience exchange within the project is welcomed and important, as the communication between the Euroregion’s partners is limited enough, asserts the director executive of INRECO. The parties could take over successful methods and practices in the field of regional government and transborder cooperation. In December the members of the “The Lower Danube” Euroregion, are to draw up a plan of actions for 2007. According to the INRECO representatives, Romania’s accession to the European Union will lead to a change in the policies of the region. That is why new activities should be established and carried out without delay, so as to become a model Euroregion for Moldova. The activities of this international project, implemented in Moldova, are supported and funded by the “Partnership Across Borders” EST Program of the SOROS Foundation Moldova.