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Moldovan premier attends football match in breakaway region

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Prime Minister Vlad Filat attended a match between the Moldovan multiple champion, FC Sheriff, and a Swiss team, FC Basel, in Tiraspol [capital of Moldova s breakaway Transnistrian region] on 24 August evening, the government's communications and press relations department has said.

The prime minister was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Victor Osipov. He watched the match along with the head of the Moldovan Football Federation (FMF), Pavel Ciobanu, and the head of the National Olympic Committee, Nicolae Juravschi.

It is for the first time that a representative of Moldova's top leadership attends a match of such a level on the Sheriff team's stadium. This fact was ensured through political representatives of Chisinau and Tiraspol, and agreed upon within a telephone conversation between Vlad Filat and [Transnistrian leader] Igor Smirnov. The two had a meeting during the match, within which they discussed concrete issues on the agenda of the Chisinau-Tiraspol dialogue. In particular, Filat and Smirnov agreed that political representatives should give the final touches to new solutions aimed at optimizing the export mechanisms for economic agents from Moldova's eastern districts.

Prime Minister Vlad Filat also visited the entire sports compound Sheriff from Tiraspol. The compound is meant for practicing a string o sports all the year long and represents an example of solid investments both for professional sport and for promoting physical education.

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