President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that, together with interim President of the Republic of Moldova Marian Lupu, he established that the action plan for putting into effect the strategic partnership for European integration should be drawn up as soon as possible.
'I and President Lupu have practically approached the whole range of domestic and foreign political questions. Our message to the President and the parties in the Alliance [for European integration] is that we want an alliance as solid as possible that should guarantee the progress of the Republic of Moldova to Europe. Together with President Lupu I have established that, as soon as possible, we should have to draw up the action plan for putting into effect the statement on the strategic partnership for European integration between Romania and the Republic of Moldova, a statement signed by me and President Ghimpu at that time,' said President Basescu at the end of the official talks with Marian Lupu.
Basescu made it clear that the talks with Lupu were very good and observed the tradition of the dialogue between Bucharest and Chisinau in the past two years. According to him, the sides also approached the priorities of the Republic of Moldova concerning the EU. Traian Basescu reiterated Romania's support to the European road of the neighbouring country.
'I have assured President Lupu of our entire support. ... Last but not least, we have dealt with the priorities in the bilateral relation and they were to be found first of all in the energy field, projects of interconnecting our power grids and the gas carrying pipes. We have also held talks about using the money allocated through the Eastern Partnership,' concluded Basescu. Agerpres.
