In accordance with the bilateral cooperation plan between the Ministries of Defense of Moldova and Ukraine for this year the Moldovan-Ukrainian peacekeepers exercise “South 2008” (“Pivdeni 2008”) was held on 7-12 July at the Training Area of the Mechanized Brigade No. 28, Cernomorskoie, Odessa region, Ukraine.
Poland is ready to help Moldova on its path to the European integration, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has told journalists at the end of his [10-11 July] visit to Moldova.
Moldova is not entertaining the idea of leaving the Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova (GUAM) regional organization Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said on July 8.
On 10th-11th July 2008, Mr Radoslaw Sikorski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, will pay an official visit to the Republic of Moldova at the invitation of Mr Andrei Stratan, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, who visited Poland in 2004.
Moldova's debt for Russian natural gas is to be either restructured or converted into shares, said the country's First Deputy Prime Minister and Economy and Trade Minister Igor Dodon.