Popov met in Moscow on March 9 with his Russian counterpart, Grigory Karasin, to tell him that Moldova's drive toward integration with the European Union and its improved relations with Romania would not harm Russian interests in the region.
Popov told RFE/RL that in his talks he "insisted on the importance of Moldova's advance toward European integration, which is an absolute objective of our internal and external policy."
But he added that this objective "converges with our goal for a privileged partnership with Russia and cannot be interpreted as an anti-Russian policy."
Other top Moldovan officials are due to visit Moscow in the coming weeks and months for the first time since the four-party Alliance for European Integration defeated the Communist Party in last summer's repeat elections.
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