Representatives from 8 countries joined in Chisinau for the 18th Reunion of the South-East European Health Network. According to Moldovan Health Minister Larisa Catrinici, the event aims at promoting national programs, policies and standards to create joint structures and mechanisms for solving health-related problems, Info-Prim Neo reports. The member-countries have signed an Arrangement Memo as to the future of the network. The document is part of the South-East European Regional Cooperation Process. They also have signed two ministerial declarations on mental health and on implementing international sanitation rules. Moldova is to present, Sunday May 31, a report on organizing assistance related to mental diseases, possibilities disinstitutionalizing patients suffering from those and integrating them into society, offering them jobs. The reunion joins delegates from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and R. Moldova, as well as development partners of the organization. The initiative “Developing in the health sector for South-East Europe: the Health Network in South-East Europe” appeared within the Social Cohesion Initiative of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe. Moldova took over the presidency of the Health Network in South-East Europe in January 2008, and will hold it till the end of June. Moldova is a member of the South-East Europe Stability Pact since 2001. The 18th Reunion of the Health Network in South-East Europe unfolds from May 29 to June 1.