Moldovan PM opts for fully enforcing Free Trade Agreement within CIS

Chisinau, 7 June /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Pavel Filip today participated in a meeting of heads of government from the Commonwealth of Independent States member states, held in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz Republic, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

In his speech delivered at the summit, Filip noted that Moldova had set deepening the economic relations, ensuring free movement of people, developing cooperation in social, cultural and humanitarian sectors as cooperation priorities within the CIS. In this context, Moldova will back the joint efforts of the CIS member states both at bilateral and multilateral level.

“Moldova is interested in strengthening and optimizing the cooperation with the CIS member states through new mechanisms, meant to respond to the latest trends on the international markets. In this context, our country offers many opportunities to the partners from CIS on the basis of the Free Trade Agreement with the EU. To remove tariff costs and to reduce production ones, the companies from CIS and EU might be interested to transfer their units in Moldova, benefitting from the liberalized trade regime with the CIS and EU”, Filip said.

Also, the premier referred to implementing the Free Trade Agreement within CIS, signed in St Petersburg on 18 October 2011. In his opinion, its provisions are not observed, as while carrying out the trade exchanges, the member states further face numerous barriers.

“In terms of the cooperation development at the CIS level, especially, in the economic sector, we believe that it is necessary to fully enforce the agreement’s provisions. Also, we opt for a qualitative transformation of CIS, which might generate optimizing the organisation’s structures. We believe that our joint interest is to develop efficient economic policies, meant to boost the trade exchanges in the area of community and to remove the existing barriers”, he said.

After the event, the heads of delegations participated in signing the cooperation documents in the economic, humanitarian and medical assistance sectors, as well as vocational training in energy sector. Filip signed 6 agreements in this regard.

The delegations’ heads met President of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambaev.

The next meeting of heads of government from the CIS member states will take place in Minsk, Belarus, on 28 October 2016.

(Editor M. Jantovan)