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MOLDOVA

MOLDOVA CALLS FOR FRANCE'S AID IN COMBATTING SLAVERY

CHISINAU, July 11

Moldova will need all the help it can get to curb slave trade rampant in the former Soviet
republic, Moldovan parliament's leaders told a visiting group of French lawmakers.

Unbridled slave trade has grown to be a national disaster for Moldova, with kidnappings of
women and children almost a daily occurrence, officials said, adding that Moldova's
parliament is considering several projects to tackle the problem.

However, Moldova may not be able to deal effectively with the slave industry without help
from France and Europe as a whole, the parliament's foreign affairs committee's chairman
Andrei Neguca warned.

Up to 80 percent of all prostitutes in western Europe had been exported from Moldova, the
poorest of former Soviet republics.

France was willing to help Moldova in stopping the slave trade, head of the National
Assembly delegation Alain Vidal assured.

France's National Assembly had formed a special commission to look into the issue of
modern slavery, especially in eastern European countries which supply a steady flow of
slaves, Vidal said.