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Chisinau, November 19 (Interfax) - The European Commission has developed a package of socioeconomic measures to improve confidence between Moldova and Transdniestria, Hugues Mingarelli, Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for External Relations (DG RELEX) in the European Commission, said on Wednesday.

"The European Union wants to participate more efficiently and actively in the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict," Hugues Mingarelli told Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan.

"The population of Transdniestrian region will get a direct advantage" from the introduction of the projects developed by the European Commission, he said. "These projects seek to modernize the society and mitigate the fallout after the war," he said.

Stratan thanked the European Commission for the development of these measures. These measures "will extend the initiatives of Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and will be carefully considered by the Moldovan authorities," he said.

Voronin supported the EU intention to "be comprehensively involved in tackling the Transdniestrian conflict."

"These measures have been dictated by the very logic of the events since the settlement of the conflict is impossible without an immediate EU participation," Stratan said.

In the beginning of 2008, the EU - Moldova Action Plan expired. Under this plan, Chisinau took some measures on harmonizing the national law with the EU standards.

Currently the terms of the EU - Moldova cooperation have not been established. Chisinau seeks to sign a treaty on EU Associated Membership or some other document providing for Moldova integration in the