President Iohannis: Implementation of EU's agreements with Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia must remain a priority

President Klaus Iohannis on Friday stated that the implementation of the existing agreements between the EU and Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia must remain a priority and that the Union must support this process of implementation by providing technical and financial assistance.

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'Romania has constantly acted, and of a concrete manner, for the advance of the political association and economic integration process with the partner states, including through providing expertise in the reform processes and in the process of implementation of the association and free trade agreements. The implementation of these agreements must remain a priority. That's why I said it very clearly that the Union must continue to support this process by granting financial and technical assistance,' said Iohannis, at the Henri Coanda Airport, upon his return from the Summit in Riga.

At the Summit, he pleaded for the strengthening of the role of the Eastern Partnership as a strategic instrument and for the development of the relations between the EU and its eastern vicinity, so as to promote stability, democratic development and prosperity in the entire region.

Iohannis showed that in the Summit of Riga an assessment was made of the concrete results obtained by the partner states after the Summit in Vilnius, among which the signing of the association and free trade agreements with the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, the provisional implementation of some important components of the association agreement with Ukraine, the liberalization of the visa regime for the citizens of the Republic of Moldova.

The head of state further specified that the Summit also debated on the directions to be approached in...