CHISINAU, October 30. /TASS/. Moldovan President Igor Dodon will travel to Moscow for an official visit on Wednesay to discuss issues related to strengthening strategic partnership with Russia. Dodon told TASS on Tuesday that during his visit to Moscow he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Speaker of Russia’s State Duma (lower house of parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin and Russian Presidential Envoy for Trade and Economic Relations with Moldova Dmitry Kozak.

"This is my first official visit to Moscow over the past year and a half. The upcoming talks with focus on strengthening friendly, strategic relations of partnership with the Russian Federation. The results of the visit are anticipated in and outside Moldova. These are both the economic agents in our country that expect the conditions for supplying their goods to the Russian market to be simplified and more than half a million compatriots who work in Russia permanently," the president said.

According to Dodon, in addition to the problem of bringing Moldovan products back to the Russian market and Moldova’s migrant workers, the situation at the talks on the Transnistrian settlement and other bilateral issues will be discussed during his visit to Moscow.

The Moldovan president is also expected to meet with students of Lomonosov Moscow State University and representatives of leading Russian media. Moldova’s delegation includes head of Gagauzia (Moldova’s autonomous region) Irina Vlakh, leader of the Party of Socialists Zinaida Greceanii and Ambassador to Russia Andrei Neguta.