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COMMUNISTS OF MOLDOVA WOULD NEVER SELL WEAPON TO ARMENIA
news.az
Dec 26 2011
Azerbaijan
News.Az interviews Violeta Ivanov, deputy of parliament of Moldova,
chairman of the Moldova-Azerbaijan group of friendship.
What you, as head of the group of friendship between Moldova and
Azerbaijan, can say about the bilateral relations?
I think that they should be intensified. We have so far signed 54
agreements, while 12 more documents are the stage of development. They
are connected with cooperation in the sphere of education, environment,
and economic interaction. But, frankly, my personal opinion of
the former ecology minister is that we need to deepen and develop
bilateral relations, especially that we have many contact points and
we have a future in this sense.
I cannot but speak about politics. Have your countries managed to
overcome the implications of the recent incident related to supply
of arms to Armenia by Moldova?
Here I want to answer exactly. I am representing the Communist Party,
which being at power in 2001-2009 tried to develop our relations and
we never tolerated such mistakes which the incumbent alliance made
by selling arms to Armenia. We, in our parliament, condemned this step.
Our party, which is supported by almost half of the population of
Moldova, spoke decisively against this policy. But unfortunately,
we have so far received neither apologizes nor arguments about the
reason it happened. This is very bad.
Going back to our activity on establishing bilateral contacts, is
the exchange of visits expected in the nearest future?
During my current visit to Baku we coordinated and planned the joint
meeting with the similar group of friendship of Milli Majlis. The
meeting is scheduled for May, since, unfortunately, Moldova will
likely have parliamentary elections again, fifth in two years. It
has been two and a half years that we do not have a president and
this obstructs cooperation issues.
I think we will manage to resume these relations and beginning from
next year, the two women leading the groups of friendship will manage
to revive the relations and inspect the execution of the working 54
agreements and finish work at 12 field agreements.
As for the visits on the level of the heads of states, the recent visit
of the third president Mr.Voronin to Azerbaijan was held in 2008 and
I was a member of the official delegation.We then viewed very good,
perspective trends.
For example?
For example, the one related to methods of developing oil fields,
because we have such ones, but they are very small. Naturally, the
experience of our Azerbaijani colleagues would be helpful.
news.az
Dec 26 2011
Azerbaijan
News.Az interviews Violeta Ivanov, deputy of parliament of Moldova,
chairman of the Moldova-Azerbaijan group of friendship.
What you, as head of the group of friendship between Moldova and
Azerbaijan, can say about the bilateral relations?
I think that they should be intensified. We have so far signed 54
agreements, while 12 more documents are the stage of development. They
are connected with cooperation in the sphere of education, environment,
and economic interaction. But, frankly, my personal opinion of
the former ecology minister is that we need to deepen and develop
bilateral relations, especially that we have many contact points and
we have a future in this sense.
I cannot but speak about politics. Have your countries managed to
overcome the implications of the recent incident related to supply
of arms to Armenia by Moldova?
Here I want to answer exactly. I am representing the Communist Party,
which being at power in 2001-2009 tried to develop our relations and
we never tolerated such mistakes which the incumbent alliance made
by selling arms to Armenia. We, in our parliament, condemned this step.
Our party, which is supported by almost half of the population of
Moldova, spoke decisively against this policy. But unfortunately,
we have so far received neither apologizes nor arguments about the
reason it happened. This is very bad.
Going back to our activity on establishing bilateral contacts, is
the exchange of visits expected in the nearest future?
During my current visit to Baku we coordinated and planned the joint
meeting with the similar group of friendship of Milli Majlis. The
meeting is scheduled for May, since, unfortunately, Moldova will
likely have parliamentary elections again, fifth in two years. It
has been two and a half years that we do not have a president and
this obstructs cooperation issues.
I think we will manage to resume these relations and beginning from
next year, the two women leading the groups of friendship will manage
to revive the relations and inspect the execution of the working 54
agreements and finish work at 12 field agreements.
As for the visits on the level of the heads of states, the recent visit
of the third president Mr.Voronin to Azerbaijan was held in 2008 and
I was a member of the official delegation.We then viewed very good,
perspective trends.
For example?
For example, the one related to methods of developing oil fields,
because we have such ones, but they are very small. Naturally, the
experience of our Azerbaijani colleagues would be helpful.