| 10 January 2010 The first round of negotiations on the Moldova-EU association agreement will be held in Chisinau on 12 January, the Foreign and European Integration Ministry's (MAEIE) mass media and public relations directorate has said. The event will start with a plenary meeting, after which European and Moldovan experts will bring together into four working groups: 1. Political dialogue and the reforms, cooperation in the foreign policy and security fields; 2. Economic, sector and financial cooperation; 3. Justice, freedom and security; 4. Inter-human contacts. The European delegation will be led by the head of the European Commission's Directorate General for External Relations, Gunnar Wiegand, and the Moldovan one - by Deputy Foreign and European Integration Minister Natalia Gherman.
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