The European Union will allocate to Moldova €7 million for regional development activities that are to be carried out in during 2012-2013. The launching of a pilot Regional Development Program, under which the funds will be allocated within the framework of the Eastern Partnership, was discussed

The leaders of Moldova and its renegade province Transnistria must both make concessions to end their long-running so-called frozen conflict and bring regional stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on 21 June.

Georgia has asked Russia for talks on alleged rights violations including ethnic cleansing that it claims were committed by Moscow over the past two decades, Georgia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, June 28.