Speaker Igor Corman said he made use of his right and removed from the agenda the bill concerning the monitoring of foreigners who enter Moldova through the Transnistrian segment because it needs to be improved. He assured that the bill will be examined in the autumn-winter session after a group of experts work on it, IPN reports.
“The bill should be improved. When we discuss it in Parliament, we must be sure that it will not cause impediments to the people living on the two banks of the Nistru. Before taking such a decision, I consulted the EU Delegation and the authors of the bill. I felt that we should not hurry,” Igor Corman said in a news conference on July 15.
The bill was to be examined in the July 12 sitting of Parliament, before vacation, but was withdrawn from the agenda. It provides for the creation of six internal checkpoints along the Nistru, which are designed to facilitate the registration of foreigners who cross Moldova’s border through the Transnistrian region. Under the legislation, the foreigners who enter Moldova must register their stay at the Migration and Asylum Bureau or a local office of the state-run documentation company “Registru” within 72 hours. If the bill is passed, the stay will be registered at the internal checkpoints too.
When the bill was adopted in the first reading, some of the MPs got into altercations. The Communist lawmakers blocked the legislature’s rostrum, accusing the parliamentary majority of wanting to create a border on the Nistru.
