Group of Russian lawmakers on visit to Moldova

Chisinau, 19 July /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova has potential to serve as example about how bridges are constructed and how, by joint efforts, the people’s living can be improved and the foreign policy can be balanced and friendly. The parliament’s leadership made statements to this effect at a meeting with a group of parliamentary officials from Russia, the parliament’s communication and public relations general department has reported.    

Attending the meeting were Parliament Speaker Zinaida Grecianii and Parliament Deputy Speakers Ion Ceban, Mihail Popsoi, Alexandru Slusari, as well as the deputy head of the inter-parliamentary commission for cooperation between Moldova’s parliamentary and Russia’s Federal Assembly, Tatiana Cunetchii. The officials stressed the need of a dialogue and highlighted openness for the settlement of the problems on the bilateral agenda.    

„We are united by the wish to get the country to the normal. We have released the state, but we have still more things to do. It is important that the parliamentary majority has the support of the people and foreign partners, is unanimous in the promotion of a balanced foreign policy and the need to foster the bilateral relations with Russia, including on the parliamentary dimension,” Parliament Speaker Zinaida Grecianii said.  

Mihail Popsoi informed about the cardinal changes taking place for the country’s transformation and reducing of the risks for the repeating of the situation when the entire power is concentrated in the hands of a single person.   

Alexandru Slusari referred to the importance of the exports in agricultural products to the Russian market, stressing the need to continue the dialogue and openly point out all subjects on the bilateral agenda, including the sensible ones.

For his part, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia’s Federal Assembly, Konstantin Kosachev, said that the present majority was the true bearer of the state’s sovereignty, as it claimed the right to promote its own vision, in the country’s interest.   

Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federal Assembly’s State Duma Olga Epifanova and the deputy head of the Economic Policies Committee in the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly, Yuriy Fedorov, spoke out for the boosting of cooperation locally and for extending the humanitarian and cultural cooperation.  

The parliament speaker invited the lawmakers of Russia to participate in the actions dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Moldova’s liberation from the Fascist occupation in the Great Patriotic War from 1941-1945, due in next August.