LITHUANIAN LEADERS CONGRATULATE MOLDOVA WITH 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė sent congratulations to Marian Lupu, Speaker of Parliament and Acting President of the Republic of Moldova, and all Moldovan people on their national holiday, the Twentieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The President writes in the letter of congratulations that over the twenty years on the path of freedom and democracy Moldova has made tremendous efforts to reform the economic and political system of the country, to change people's mentality and to consolidate common European values. According to the President, Moldova is an integral part of Europe as a geographical, political, economic and value-based space.
"Recalling warmly our recent meeting in Kishinev in July, I wish to assure you that Lithuania will continue supporting Moldova on its euro-integration path. Cooperation between our countries is already generating good results and I will make efforts to ensure that cooperation between our authorities, businesspeople and general public continues and goes even stronger. I believe in the benefit of this cooperation for both countries," the President Office Press Service announced.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Audronius Ažubalis in his congratulatory letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova Iurie Leanca underlined that Lithuanian and Moldovan nations stood shoulder to shoulder in the struggle for independence in the late 1980s and the beginning of 1990s.
"Because of our and other Central and Eastern European nations' fight for freedom and democracy, Europe today is safer and more democratic. But European project is still not complete. This is why Lithuania will always remain true and sound supporter of your country's chosen path of euro-integration and democratic refrms", wrote the Lithuanian Minister.
"At the same time, I am confident that only by ensuring democratic freedoms, by encouraging our citizens’ initiatives, entrepreneurship and civic participation, by fighting corruption and respecting human rights we can build strong, free and undivided Europe", noted Minister A.Ažubalis.
