On May 22-23, Mr Hökmark, EPP Vice-President, headed a delegation to Chisinau, Moldova. The delegation met with Interim Head of State Marian Lupu, Prime Minister Vlad Filat, Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Natalia Gherman and Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim.
A working lunch was held with Dumitru Diacov, leader of the Democrat faction in Parliament and Igor Corman, Chairman of the Permanent Parliament Commission for External policy and EU Integration.
Meetings also took place with the leader of the Liberal Party, Mihai Ghimpu, and Ion Hadarca, leader of the liberal faction in the Parliament, Eugen Carpov, Deputy Prime Minister för Reintegration Affairs/Transnistria, with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and Steven Rader of the International Republican Institute