On December 4, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Aureliu Ciocoi. The phone call was initiated by Moldova.

The parties discussed current issues and prospects for developing Russian-Moldovan relations, cooperation in the CIS and Moldova’s interaction with the Eurasian Economic Union as an observer. The ministers expressed the common opinion on the need to preserve the friendly and constructive nature of bilateral interaction and to maintain intensive contacts at various levels in the spirit of the principles laid out in the 2001 Russian-Moldovan Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation.

They exchanged assessments on the current status of the negotiation process on the Transnistrian settlement, as well as on issues of mutual interest on the regional and international agendas.