Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Friday with Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Natalia Gherman to discuss the situation in the Dniester settlement in the light of Ukrainian developments and preparations for talks in the 5+2 format.
The two ministers stressed that “further expansion of trade and economic exchanges, closer cooperation in the humanitarian area are in the interests of both countries,” the Russian Foreign Ministry reported after the meeting.
Special attention was focused on problems of the regional and international agenda. Apart from that, Lavrov and Gherman signed a plan of consultations between the two countries’ foreign ministries in 2014-2015.
[itar-tass.com]
4/4/14
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Protesters in Moldovan capital condemn NATO/US interference in other countries’ affairs...
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The pickets were organized by a number of public associations including Fatherland Eurasian Union, the Young Russians’ League and ‘I am Moldovan, I speak Moldovan’ on the occasion of a yet another anniversary since NATO’s foundation.
“We know what kind of purposes the North-Atlantic pact is pursuing and we don’t want our authorities to cooperate with it,” said Ivan Muntean, the leader of ‘I am Moldovan’. “This country has a neutral status and the fact is featured in our Constitution.”
“Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of NATO operations in Yugoslavia and Belgrade, its capital, was heavily devastated,” said Viktor Kalashnikov, the leader of the Young Russians’ League.
“Tens of thousands of human lives have been taken away by the wars unleashed by NATO in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and other countries,” he said. “NATO is the evil force, an ominous creature with an axe to grind against the sisterly countries that once made up the USSR.”
Moldovan authorities believe that this country’s neutral status does not impede a buildup of cooperation with NATO on the basis of a plan for individual partnership.................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/726619
4/4/14