8th session of Moldovan-Russian Intergovernmental Commission will take place on November 27 in Moscow

On November 27 in Moscow, the 8th session of the Moldovan-Russian intergovernmental commission on economic collaboration will take place. Within the frameworks of the seventh session of the Moldovan-Russian commission held on October 6, current year, participants decided upon signing “several agreements” in Moscow. Although it wasn’t specified which kind of documents are to be signed, Russian and Moldovan officials made it clear that agreements concerning natural gas and Moldovan wine exports could be signed. Meanwhile, the Moldovan part was to implement “some actions on ensuring the quality of Moldovan products”. Representatives of Chisinau and Moscow in the Commission declared at the last session that they had a benefic cooperation and once with the signing of the protocol it has been ascertained that all the disagreements between parties related to the thermo-energetic complex and the export of Moldovan agricultural products have been eliminated. For the same period, signing of a long term agreement was planed between “Moldova-Gaz” and “Gazprom” companies, which would ensure delivery of natural gas to Moldova for at least 5 years. In the same time, Moldova’s debts for gas were to be discussed, especially in what concerns debts of the Transnistrian part. Moldovan officials didn’t make public declarations concerning the process of execution actions established in the Moldovan-Russian protocol. Especially, nothing was declared about the negotiation of the contract on natural gas delivery. Concerning the wine issue, the Government approved several normative acts, among which acts providing the creation of an automatic register of ethylic alcohol circulation. The Executive also obliged “peasant’s wine” producers to obtain license and register at the Fiscal Inspectorate as excise payers, approved the delimitation of the country’s area into wine regions. According to the authorities, the measures taken are to improve the quality and the promotion of wines on foreign markets. It was also officially announced that experts from the Agro-Industrial Agency “Moldova-Vin” will pay a visit to the Russian Sanitary service “Rospotrebnadzor” in order to negotiate conditions of re-launching exports of Moldovan wines with Russian sanitary doctors.