Russia Offered Resumption of Economic Cooperation to Moldova

Russia has prepared a plan to restore economic relations with Moldova and proposed it to Chisinau, media reported Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Russian Kommersant daily, a roadmap containing a list of measures which Moscow has offered to implement with Chisinau in order to restore trade relations was sent to the Moldova's Embassy in Moscow.

The media reported that these measures could be divided in three groups: technical, in the sphere of energy and geopolitical. The roadmap was sent by the Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Integration with CIS Countries, which belongs to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Ilya Galkin on June 28.

According to the media, Chisinau has already reacted to the Russian proposal by rejecting some of the measures.

After Moldova signed a free trade zone agreement with the European Union in 2014, Russia cancelled zero customs taxes on a number of commodities from this country, which included wine, meat, vegetables, fruits and cereals. The decision was explained by the need to prevent possible re-export of products originating from the European Union via that country.