Moldova, United Kingdom to sign Agreement on Strategic Partnership, Trade and Cooperation

Chisinau, 15 December /MOLDPRES/ - The Moldovan diplomacy head, Aureliu Ciocoi, today had a discussion in videoconference format with Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the United Kingdom Wendy Morton, the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry’s (MAEIE) press service has reported.    

The diplomats appreciated the advanced level of the Moldova-UK political dialogue and sectoral cooperation and signaled the need to boost the high-level visits to both capitals. At the same time, the ministers welcomed the work of the group of negotiators, who gave the final touches, in eight rounds of consultations, to the text of the Agreement on Strategic Partnership, Trade and Cooperation, which is to regulate the post-Brexit Moldovan-British relations.    

Minister Aureliu Ciocoi pointed out that this advanced and comprehensive legal instrument would serve as basis for the continuity of the relations between Moldova and the United Kingdom and would help preserve and develop the bilateral strategic partnership, consolidate the economic and commercial relations and would contribute to the creation of conditions for cooperation in more sectors of mutual interest.   

The sides tackled a string of priority subjects on the bilateral Moldovan-British agenda: strengthening the regional cooperation, collaboration on the European dimension, as well as Moldova’s participation in the 2021 United Nations Climate Changes Conference, known also with the name of COP26, scheduled to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, under the chairmanship of the UK, on 1-12 November 2021.    

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