BRATISLAVA, November 9, (WEBNOVINY) — Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda is on a working visit to the Moldovan capital of Kishinev on Tuesday. He is among others planning to meet with the Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Filat and will be received by President Mihai Ghimpu. In the evening, he will meet with students and representatives of the State University and will participate at the official opening of the National Convention on European Integration of the Republic of Moldova. Later he will have a working dinner with his colleague Natalia Gherman.
According to Dzurinda, Moldova has all predispositions to become one of the successfully integrating countries. “The potential is hidden mostly in long-term pro-European attitudes of the political elite and the citizens,” said the Slovak Foreign Minister. Moldova is one of the countries receiving Slovak development aid, Slovakia provided among others one hundred thousand euros for improving the hardware of the state-run broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova.
Dzurinda will also hand over the first Slovak visa issued at the Hungarian Embassy in Moldova. This will be the first visa to be issued in Kishinev within a framework of the bilateral agreement on the Republic of Hungary representing Slovakia in issuing visa to the citizens of Moldova, informed the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lubos Schwarzbacher.
Hungarian diplomatic missions are representing Slovakia in three countries in matters of issuing the so-called Schengen Visa. On November 1 a treaty from September on representation in issuing Schengen visa signed by Mikulas Dzurinda and the Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi entered into force. The treaty concerns Hungarian embassies in Tirana (Albania), Kishinev (Moldova) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), which are entitled to issuing Slovak visa to local citizens.
This is a third similar treaty Slovakia signed. A treaty with Slovenia was signed in mid-October and a treaty with Austria in 2009.
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