Twinning arrangement between Chisinau and Bucharest not signed at meeting of councilors from two cities

Chisinau, 20 January /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau general mayor, Ion Ceban, today said that the twinning arrangement between the Chisinau and Bucharest city halls had not been signed at the joint meeting of the councilors from the two cities.   

Ion Ceban noted that the arrangement had been voted at the concerned meeting and, under Moldova’s legislation, it will be submitted to the Bucharest Municipal Council through the Foreign Affairs Ministry.  

In this context, the mayor called on journalists to responsibility. “I call on the media to prove responsibility. One cannot deny what did not take place and was not planned. It was not about the signing of an agreement at that meeting. The agreement was voted by the Chisinau Municipal Council, based on the legal procedures. And then one can speak about the signing. When everything is arranged and voted, the agreement will be submitted via official ways, through the Foreign Affairs ministry and then one can speak about the signing,” Ceban said in the beginning of the today’s meeting of the Chisinau city hall.          

On 15 January 2020, the Chisinau Municipal Council voted, in the presence of a group of municipal councilors from Bucharest, the additional cooperation agreement to the Twinning Protocol, signed by the Chisinau and Bucharest city halls in 1999. Several days later, the Romanian delegation, led by the deputy general mayor Aurelian Badulescu, denied in a press release that it would have signed a cooperation protocol with the Chisinau city hall.