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Foreign affairs ministers of Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine meet EU high representative

18:31 | 24.06.2021 Category: Official

Chisinau, 24 June /MOLDPRES/ - Acting Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Aureliu Ciocoi, along with his counterparts from Georgia David Zalkaliani and Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, today had a meeting with  High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles, in the beginning the visit to the European institutions.   

The Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry’s (MAEIE) public diplomacy, strategic communication and media interaction service has reported that, during the meeting, the heads of the Moldovan, Georgian and Ukrainian diplomacies pointed out that the three countries wanted a deepening of the political association, economic and sectoral integration with the European Union, in the context of the implementation of the Association Agreement. Also, the three associated countries regard the establishment of ambitious goals within the Eastern Partnership, which will encourage the boosting of the cooperation and continuous rapprochement of the eastern partners with EU. In this respect, the Eastern Partnership Summit, scheduled to take place in late 2021, will represent a major opportunity which must be turned to good account.        

Aureliu Ciocoi stressed that the European Union was the strategic political and commercial partner for those three associated countries, which joined efforts to more efficiently promote the European integration agenda, guided by their European aspirations. The Moldovan official noted that sustained efforts were further needed to strengthen the democracy and the rule of law state, with the associated countries assuming firm commitments to this end, including through the Association Agreements with EU.  

The foreign affairs ministers highlighted that the European integration and the improvement of the living standards was the priority objective for the three countries.

photo: MAEIE

 

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