Moldova attends informal meeting of Central European Initiative

Chisinau, 22 September /MOLDPRES/- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Lilian Darii, participated on 21 September 2017, in an informal Meeting of the of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of member states of the Central European Initiative (CEI), organized on the margins of the High-level Segment of the 72nd UN General Assembly in New York, under the aegis of Belarus, the 2017 Chair of the CEI.

During the meeting, the participants made an exchange of views about the latest development in the CEI region, medium and long-term priorities and discussed about various aspects of regional cooperation. At the same time, they underlined the importance of implementing the CEI Action Plan for 2017-2020, in particular the provisions on transportation, technologies and communications, and the energy sector.

In his intervention, Deputy Minister Lilian Darii emphasized the need to further strengthen the dialogue and sectoral interaction between the CEI and the European Union, which represents a key partner for the path of modernization of the CEI region, both in the economic field and in the process of consolidating democracy and human rights in the CEI member states.

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The Central European Initiative (CEI) was launched in 1989 in Budapest by Italy, Austria, Hungary and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The main objective of CEI is consolidating the cooperation between the countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, while assisting them in their preparation process for joining the European Union in the future. The Republic of Moldova joined the CEI on November 8th 2006, within the CEI Summit of the Heads of Government. The CEI is composed of: 10 EU member states – Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary – and 8 states which are not members of the EU – Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYROM, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine.