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The Steering Committee of the EaP Civil Society Forum is now inviting all interested parties to submit expressions of interest to participate in the fourth meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. The submission of expressions of interest is a necessary step in the selection process to participate in the EaP CSF meeting in Sweden in 2012.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed the announced resumption of internationally-mediated talks on the Transdniester dispute.

Combating of corruption is one of the main conditions that Moldova must fulfill in order to come closer to the European Union, Polish Ambassador to Moldova Bogumil Luft said in a meeting of the Press Club of the Foreign Policy Association.

The new European Neighborhood Policy presented officially by the European Commission contains new emphases as regards democracy. The European Union says stress will be laid on the democratic dimension as it will be hard to create a zone of stability, security and prosperity in the neighboring countries without stable democracy. But this new approach is in fact not new. It is a mainly a déjà vu and the European officials should be told this openly. The conclusions were formulated in a Press Club meeting of the Foreign Policy Association (APE).

U.S. Senator John McCain and Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat meet in Chisinau.

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi says the European Union no longer suspects Bucharest of promoting a "hidden agenda" in regard to Moldova, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

The Institute for Eastern Studies and the Foreign Policy Association of Moldova are organizing the EU și Moldova Forum to be held 29 și 31st March 2011 in Chisinau, under the Honorary Patronage of Mr Vlad Filat, the Prime Minister of Moldova and Mr Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland. The first EU și Moldova Forum will serve as a good opportunity to exchange the ideas, share experience and discuss the future projects. For more information please vizit the website: www.forum-ekonomiczne.pl, www.ape.md. The agenda is attached

The visit by Baroness Catherine Ashton will have a positive impact on the three main objectives of the official Chisinau, namely the negotiation of the Association Agreement, liberalization of the visa regime, and creation of a deep and comprehensive free trade area with the EU,” executive director of the Foreign Policy Association Victor Chirila said in a meeting of the press club centering on the effects of the visits paid by high-ranking foreign officials to Chisinau.

Victor Chirila, the director of the Foreign Policy Association, stated at a press club on Monday that the effects of the US Vice President Joe Biden's visit, considered to be symbolical by the Moldovan government, could be ephemeral if Moldova fails to act to fully achieve national strategic goals like European integration and resolution of the Transnistrian conflict.

The Foreign Policy Association regrets that its name was mentioned in an inappropriate context in the article Transnistria 'zombies' stake their future on Russia, not EU”, published by Andrew Rettman on EUobserver website on 24 January 2011. Moreover, we have to mention that APE doesnt use such words when speaking about people who leave on the left side of the Nistru River and the comments of the APE representative, quoted in the initial version of the article were false and taken out of context.

At the invitation of Lithuania that assumed the Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a group of students from Moldova paid a visit to Vienna on 12-13 January. They met with representatives of the delegation of Lithuanias Chairmanship in Vienna, the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media.

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During the first year of Alliance for European Integration government, Republic of Moldova's foreign policy has been characterized by dynamism, initiative, intelligence and consistency. Moldovan diplomacy has able to capitalize effectively on the unified and strong political will expressed by the AEI in the area of European integration and to make the maximum out of the openness and confidence expressed by the EU and its Member States to the new democratic and pro-European government in Chișinău.

This morning, 17.03.2010 Valeriu Lazar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of the Republic of Moldova, and Fatmir Besimi, Minister of Economy of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in his function as the Energy Community Presidency in Office, signed a protocol on the accession of Republic of Moldova to the Energy Community.

The expert invited by FPA in the framework of the Moldova-European Union: learning from the integration experience of the new member states” is Mr. Pavel Telicka, former Chief Negotiator of the Czech Republic with EU, first Czech European Commissioner in Prodis cabinet. Mr Telicka will come to Chisinau on 13-16 January, 2009. There will be organized a series of meetings and discussions with senior officials, european coordinators” in line ministries, civil society leaders, other national experts in EU affairs, university professors, students etc.

The eleventh meeting of the EU-Republic of Moldova Cooperation Council was held in Brussels today, 21.12.2009 chaired by Moldova's Prime Minister Vlad Filat and Sweden's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Frank Belfrage representing the EU Presidency. Discussions at the meeting focused on the ongoing development of relations between the EU and the Republic of Moldova, political developments in Moldova and, over a working lunch, efforts to achieve a sustainable settlement of the frozen conflict regarding the Transnistrian region. The meeting adopted a Joint Statement.