Moldova and Romania to hold Joint Government Meetings

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The governments of Moldova and Romania will continue the practice of joint meetings and establish a working group to develop priority areas for cooperation in the near future, stated Prime Minister of RomaniaViorica Dăncilă at a briefing on July 2, following the meeting with her Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu. Viorica Dăncilă congratulated Sandu with the entry into office and promised openness of the Romanian government to cooperation with the new government in Chisinau on the development of special bilateral relations and support for European integration. The Romanian Prime Minister promised to promote more active participation of the European Union in the development of Moldova. According to her, Romania also supports the release of EU macro-financial assistance. The two governments will begin to work within the framework of the intergovernmental group, said Dăncilă. The group will identify priority areas for cooperation. The Romanian Prime Minister also promised to contribute to the resolution of the Transnistrian conflict, taking into account the preservation of the territorial integrity of Moldova and its Pro-European course. Maia Sandu, in turn, assured that the format of the joint meetings of the governments of Moldova and Romania would be preserved. According to her, the Prime Ministers of the two countries also discussed the construction of the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline, the interconnection of the power systems of the two countries and the construction of a bridge over the Prut near Ungheni. Maia Sandu is on her official visit to Bucharest. Together with Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Nastase, she has already met with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. Earlier, the Prime Minister planned to visit Brussels first and then to go to Bucharest. She also reported that she received an invitation from Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Berlin. Now we are discussing the time of the visit. Newsmaker