Romanian President Traian Basescu said in the opening of the meeting he had at the Cotroceni Palace with Iurie Leanca, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration in Chisinau, that the energy sector would also be included in the non-reimbursable financing agreement in amount of 100 million euros signed between Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
The Romanian Head of State said that he approached this topic on Sunday, March 13, with Moldovan PM Vlad Filat, adding that this amendment to the agreement must be made by means of two protocols to be annexed.
"This implies two protocols to be quickly annexed, as we have already sent the agreement to Parliament. Therefore, it would be better to let it pass now, so that no document should be left. A set to include the energy or whatever necessary is most likely to be worked on next week. Thus, we will not have to go to Parliament twice to ratify and issue the projects in question. We also talked about the involvement of the Moldovan General Secretariat, so that these protocols should be annexed quickly," President Basescu said.
In his turn, Minister Iurie Leanca explained that he wanted this visit to Bucharest, which took place two months after the creation of the new Government in Chisinau, to be scheduled among his first foreign visits, considering that Romania is a vital partner in the Republic of Moldova's efforts to modernize and get on a "stable European track."
The non-reimbursable financing agreement between Romania and the Republic of Moldova, amounting to 100 million euros, granted by Bucharest to Chisinau over the next four years by virtue of bilateral cooperation projects, was signed on April 27, 2010 in Bucharest, during an official visit former Interim President Mihai Ghimpu paid to Bucharest. The initial form of the agreement was amended in September 2010 by an additional protocol that provided a new cooperation field, that of emergency relief, so that an amount of 8 million euros out of the 25 million, representing the first year-share, could be released for building materials to be sent to the areas hit by floods in the Republic of Moldova. AGERPRES
