Speaker Lupu is irritated at behavior of certain members of European Parliament

Moldovan speaker Marian Lupu criticizes the Liberal and Democratic Europarliamentarians for having organized, in Brussels on May 15 , a conference on the issue of breakaway areas, Info-Prim Neo reports. Speaking on behalf of the entire Parliament from Chisinau, Marian Lupu has expressed his “dissatisfaction and concern related to this action organized by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe,” at a briefing held on Friday, May 16 , about his trip to Brussels. The president of the Parliament has said the subject of unrecognized states was tackled “in a erroneous way and politically incorrectly”. “We wonder at such an approach on behalf of an important political group in the European Parliament,” Marian Lupu stated. On May 6, the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) organized a conference about Moldova's European future at which the Communist rulers got no compliments, and on May 15, ALDE organized the first conference of the liberal and democrat mayors from Europe, joined by Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, too. Also on Thursday in Brussels, speaker Lupu had a first informal meeting with the chief of the Tiraspol parliament Yevgeni Shevchuk, who was invited by Europarliamentarians to a round table on human trafficking. The leader from Transnistria could enter the EU soil, after the Moldovan President demanded Brussels to cancel the movement restrictions for Tiraspol dignitaries, following the arrangement with leader Igor Smirnov earlier in April. Marian Lupu insisted the meeting with Yevgeni Shevchuk is not a negotiating stage, and its importance consists in its being the first after 7 years of not communicating. Marian Lupu led a delegation of Moldovan Mps, who, on May 14 and 15, had meetings with officials from European Commission and Parliament in Brussels, being invited by the special EU representative to Moldova, Kalman Mizsei. According to Lupu, the EU has an encouraging position concerning Moldova's implementing the bilateral action plan and the political arrangement, the validity of which expired in March. The speaker is optimistic the European officials will decide till the end of the year to conclude new similar arrangements with Moldova. Political analysts from Chisinau assess Marian Lupu's meeting with Yevgeni Shevchuk in Brussels la as a risk assumed by two influential politicians from the Nistru's two banks.