The Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean is on a visit to Paris, at the invitation of his French counterpart Laurent Fabius. The Romanian high-ranking official will also be meeting Minister Delegate for European Affairs Thierry Repentin as well as the President of the National Assembly’s Foreign Policy Commission, Elisabeth Guigou. High on the talks’ agenda are Romania and France’s strategic partnership, the future of the European Union, the Community area’s enlargement policy as well as the Syrian crisis. Corlatean will also be the guest of honor at the French institute for International Relations, where he will be taking part in the debate “Romania’s role in the European Union, a contribution to the development of the European project”.

Romania and the Republic of Moldova, which is a former Soviet Republic with a predominantly Romanian-speaking population will set up a joint forum for justice, within which talks will mainly be focusing on the good practice in the field. The announce has been made in Chisnau today by the Romanian Justice Minister Robert Cazanciuc and his Moldovan counterpart Oleg Efrim. The two specified they would convene twice a year, at ministerial and expert level, respectively. In another move, Cazanciuc provided assurances Romania would continue to support the Republic of Moldova’s reforms in the justice sector, as part of the former Soviet republic’s European integration process.