Moldova appreciates Poland's significant contribution to boosting cooperation within Eastern Partnership

Chisinau, 12 July /MOLDPRES/ - The deepening of the Moldovan-Polish bilateral relations, support by Warsaw of Moldova’s European integration process, removing of the roaming tariffs and facilitation of the converting of driver’s licences for the Moldovan citizens staying in Poland and other European Union states were subjects tackled at a today’s meeting between Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Nicu Popescu and Foreign Affairs Minister of Poland Jacek Czaputowicz, the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry’s press service has reported.        

The two officials reconfirmed the common commitment to deepen the political dialogue and the commercial and economic cooperation between the two countries. As for the trade with EU and the active role played by enterprises with Polish capital in Moldova, Minister Popescu stressed that “68 per cent of Moldovan exports go to the European Union. Due to the Eastern Partnership and the Free Trade Agreement and implicitly the investments on behalf of Polish economic agents, new jobs were created in the country for the Moldovan citizens and this fact has a positive effect on the living standards of the people and the economy from Moldova.”      

Referring to the present stage of the bilateral cooperation in diverse sectors, the Moldovan foreign affairs minister said: “We have an excellent relation with Poland in all sectors – political, economic, social, as well as cultural one. We have exchanges of students, twin cities, honorary consulates and we want to edify, on this basis, a stronger and closer relation, with more benefits for the citizens of Moldova and Poland.”     

At the meeting, the foreign affairs ministers, Nicu Popescu and Jacek Czaputowicz, agreed to undertake joint actions, meant to contribute to the removing of roaming tariffs and facilitating the process of converting the driver’s licences for the Moldovans staying in Poland and other European Union states. “We will support the initiatives set forth by Chisinau, just as it has been earlier mentioned, the one of removing the roaming tariffs between Moldova and the European Union countries, also the settlement of the problem of driver’s licences of Moldovan citizens; you have our every support to this end,” the Polish minister emphasized.    

Minister Jacek Czaputowicz confirmed his country’s interest to further back Moldova in the implementation of the reforms’ agenda, as well as the European integration process. “I want to convey a strong signal to the colleagues from Moldova as to the pro-European aspect of the integration policy and the latter’s support by Poland.”