Moldavie: la Cour constitutionnelle suspend une deuxième fois les pouvoirs du président

La Cour constitutionnelle moldave a suspendu temporairement vendredi pour la deuxième fois en une semaine les pouvoirs du président Igor Dodon, qui a refusé de signer une loi interdisant de facto certains médias russes en Moldavie.

Dodon si rivolge alla Corte Costituzionale contro il divieto dei programmi russi

Il presidente della Moldavia Igor Dodon ha respinto ancora una volta la legge approvata dal Parlamento che vieta la trasmissione di notizie e di informazioni analitiche russe.

El Tribunal Constitucional de Moldavia cesa las funciones del presidente Dodon

El Tribunal Constitucional de Moldavia ha suspendido de forma temporal las funciones del presidente del país, Ígor Dodon, por pedido de un grupo de parlamentarios de la coalición gobernante, informa la agencia Interfax.

EU, former Soviet states pledge to cement ties

Leaders from The European Union (EU) and six former Soviet countries on Friday pledged to cement their ties, which "is not directed against anyone".

Le vice-Premier ministre russe Rogozine proclamé persona non grata en Moldavie

Le vice-Premier ministre russe Dmitri Rogozine s’est vu proclamé persona non grata en Moldavie suite à une série de déclarations sur des dirigeants moldaves. Cette décision s’inscrit dans le prolongement de l’incident survenu le 28 juillet, lorsque la Roumanie a refusé à un avion transportant M.Rogozine en Moldavie de traverser son espace aérien.

Russian official slams Romania's airspace refusal as ploy against Moldovan leader

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has described the Romanian authorities’ decision to refuse permission to a civilian plane carrying a Russian delegation to Moldova for talks with President Igor Dodon as a "demarche addressed to the Moldovan president."

Moldova President Hopes to Cancel EU Association Agreement

Moldova’s President said Tuesday he hoped the country’s association agreement with the European Union will be cancelled if his party obtains a parliamentary majority, paving the way for an alliance with Moscow.

Socialist leader wins presidential election in Moldova

Igor Dodon, the leader of Moldova’s Party of Socialists advocating closer relations with Russia, has won the presidential elections in Moldova by the margin of more than 5 percentage points.

Moldova may lose Transdniestria due to rapprochement with Romania : Russian official

Moldova risks losing its territorial integrity due to the rapprochement with Romania, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with the Kommersant daily on Friday after his visit to Moldova.

Moldova to fulfill its obligations to EU on hosting refugees (PM)

Moldova will fulfill its obligations to the EU in terms of hosting refugees from the Middle East and/or North Africa if it gets requests for granting asylum to them, Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet told a news conference on Friday.

NATO and U.S. Efforts in Support of NATO Partners, Including Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia

The White House, Office of the Press Secretary:

"The United States strongly supports NATO’s cooperation with partners as a means to share more effectively burdens and act worldwide to accomplish our common security goals. This aligns with wider U.S. strategy of driving global cooperation on security challenges through networks of alliances. 
NATO’s Wales Summit marks the 20^th anniversary of its longest-standing partnership networks.  The Partnership for Peace (PfP), established in 1994, includes 22 partners; the Mediterranean Dialogue (Med-D), also established in 1994, includes Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia; and the Istanbul Cooperative Initiative (ICI), established in 2004, includes Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE.  Another initiative, NATO’s Partners Across the Globe (PAG), includes cooperation with Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mongolia.

Russia will protect its market in case of EU association with Georgia and Ukraine

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev demanded to take an urgent decision on protection of Russian market over Moldova’s association deal with the European Union, the Russian prime minister said at a meeting with the deputy prime ministers on Monday.

“With due account of the factor of time and Moldovan parliament’s ratification of this document (the Association Agreement) and further ratification by EU parliament we should take a decision to this effect as quickly as possible,” the prime minister noted.

Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia start to live in fuzzy European dream. -What distinguishes Ukraine from Greece - the country that some European states were so unwilling to help?(video)

Tbilisi, Chisinau and Kiev signed the Association Agreement with the EU. Now the citizens of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine will consider themselves Europeans, but they will not be able to work in Europe. They will have to buy more European goods and less of their own products. They will be destroying corruption under the supervision of corrupt officials and wait for new shocks to come in the belief that only Putin is to blame for all their tribulations.

"The European Union will take over solemn obligations to these three countries, - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on June 25. - For the EU, signing these documents will be a solemn commitment to accompany every step of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in the transformation of these countries to stable and prosperous democracies."

Russia warns of "grave consequences" of Ukraine-EU deal

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin warned of "grave consequences" for Ukraine's signing of association agreements with the European Union (EU) on Friday.

The moves could bring aggravations in the future, Karasin said, although the signing of such significant documents is the right of every sovereign state.

"There is no doubt that the signing (of the EU deal) by Ukraine and Moldova will have major consequences, but we should calculate its implications in order to avoid future misunderstandings and suspicions," the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.

EU signs association accords with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova

The European Union signed free-trade and political cooperation agreements with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova on Friday as the three former soviet republics took a historic step away from Russian influence and closer to a future in Europe.

The accord falls short of full EU membership but offers deep economic integration and tariff-free access to the EU’s 500 million consumers.

"This is a great day for Europe... the European Union stands by your side today more than ever before," European Council head Herman Van Rompuy said at the ceremony with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Ministers Irakli Garibashvili of Georgia and Iurie Leanca of Moldova.

Foreign Ministry: Romania’s anti-Russian rhetoric harms bilateral relations

With increased anti-Russian rhetoric from the Romanian leadership it would be inappropriate to expect relations between the two countries to continue to develop constructively, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday, May 15.

“As if by order, the top leadership of Romania, including the president, is stepping up anti-Russian rhetoric. The latest public insulting statements against the President of Russia are absolutely outrageous and unacceptable,” he said. “I think it is hardly appropriate to expect bilateral relations to continue to develop in a constructive manner, in the same spirit and at the same pace,” the spokesperson said.

Rogozin comes back to Moscow from Moldova despite Ukraine’s. --Bulgarian and Romanian ATC had asked him if there was “a banned passenger” aboard.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said he had returned to Moscow from Moldova’s breakaway Transdniestrian Republic even though his plane had been forced by Ukrainian interceptors to fly back to Chisinau.
“Ukrainian interceptor aircraft forced our plane to make a U-turn,” Rogozin wrote in his Twitter account on Saturday, May 10.
Several minutes later he added: “But the defence industry has its own trails. I am already in Moscow. And the [Kiev] junta left in the basket.” To prove his words, Rogozin posted a photo of himself against the building of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

The Russian Embassy in Chisinau told ITAR-TASS that Rogozin must have travelled to Russia by a regular flight and was not on the plane intercepted over Ukraine.

Štefan Füle: Eastern European partners deserve a different future.

European Commission, Statement, Budapest, 29 April 2014:

Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle, participated in the 5th Annual Visegrad Group (V4) meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs on Eastern Partnership countries in Budapest. This is what he said following the meeting:

ΥΠΕΞ: Κοινές δηλώσεις Αντ. της Κυβέρνησης και ΥΠΕΞ, Ευ. Βενιζέλου, και Αντ. της Μολδαβικής Κυβέρνησης και ΥΠΕΞ και Ευρ. Ολοκλήρωσης, Natalia Gherman (Κισινάου, 8.04.2014)

ΥΠΕΞ, 9/4/14
N. GHERMAN: Αυτή είναι η πρώτη επίσκεψη του Υπουργού Εξωτερικών της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας κ. Βενιζέλου στη Δημοκρατία της Μολδαβίας. Και, δεύτερον, ο κ. Βενιζέλος πραγματοποιεί αυτή την επίσκεψη στη χώρα μας υπό μία άλλη, επίσης, ιδιότητά, αυτήν του Προέδρου του Συμβουλίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης.

Δηλαδή, με άλλα λόγια, εκπροσωπεί, επίσης, σήμερα στη Δημοκρατία της Μολδαβίας την Ελληνική Προεδρία του Συμβουλίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης.

Preparing Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova for association with EU

European Commission,  Brussels, 1 April 2014:
In the context of growing regional pressures on Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, and delivering on its pledge to coordinate international assistance to Ukraine, the European Commission agreed with International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in the presence of EU Commissioner Štefan Füle on 1 April in Brussels to spearhead enhanced assistance measures to the three countries.

The assistance measures will notably support Ukraine to implement the IMF-backed reform package agreed on 27 March; they will also support the implementation of Association Agreements, including Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas, signed, or shortly to be signed between the EU and Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.