Moldovan interior minister attends conference on EU Strategy for Danube region

Acting Interior Minister Dorin Recean participates in a conference on the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), which is held in Munchen, Germany on 6–7 May, the Interior Ministry’s information and public relations department has reported.

The conference´s agenda included issues related to fighting against cybernetic crime, cooperation in combating transnational organised crime, as well as to cooperation relations in the Danube region.

The states included in the strategy are those covered by the Danube cooperation process such as: Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria lands), Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. Eight of these countries are EU members and the others are involved in different initiatives of cooperation with the European Union, some of them clearly aiming at becoming an EU member in the near or a distant future.

Dorin Recean met Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann. The officials reviewed the cooperation bilateral relations and the priorities as regards the interior sector. Herrmann assured that the body he represented would provide its multilateral support in order to ensure continuity to the efforts taken in the interior field, which were agreed during the conference.

In 1994, 11 states of those situated in the Danube region (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine), as well as the European Commission signed a convention of cooperation for the protection and sustainable use of the Danube River in Sofia (Bulgaria). Moldova ratified the convention via the parliament’s decision no. 323 from 17 March 1999.

Adapted from Moldpres