H.E. Mrs. Larisa Miculet:

I was responding to questions previously, but if this is now the stage of finalising our engagement, I feel guilty that I did not answer other questions also, which I can discuss later with Deputy Duffy.

In conclusion, please allow me to express my gratitude for today's encouragement. All of us follow the activities in both Chambers of the Oireachtas. We have heard a lot of words of support and we express our deep gratitude. I reiterate that small countries must support one another. We can count on our solidarity on international law. I ask for the committee's support in that regard.

I will also take this opportunity, that in this room are also the ambassadors of Romania and Poland, who are our great supporters. There are many others too but they are here today. I thank the ambassadors of Romania and Poland for their countries' support in this journey, as well as, definitely, Ireland. We have always said that we already had a lot of Ireland's support. I thank the committee for this glimpse of hope that we got today. I am quite sure this united message that we heard here, will be heard by and directed to the government that is implementing this EU membership process. We have great co-operation with them. I say this because finally this is enhancing European security, European market and European stability. Given our location, Moldova is in Europe. There is no way to be different. I thank the committee.