Moldovan premier chairs meeting of Inter-ministerial Committee on Strategic Planning

Chisinau, 11 May /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Chiril Gaburici convened in meeting members of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Strategic Planning. The officials discussed the needs, opportunities and prospects of implementing more projects in Moldova, among which construction and endowing of the Balti Regional Hospital with modern equipment and building of a waste-water treatment plant in northern Soroca town, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

The Committee accepted the draft on construction and endowing with modern equipment of the Balti Regional Hospital, which is to provide services to inhabitants of the north region of Moldova. The institution has a capacity of 250 beds and will provide services inclusively in the heart surgery and neurology. The project will be carried out during four years (2016-2019). Within reasonable terms, the Health Ministry is to present studies on the project’s optimal cost. The Japanese government is a potential donor.

The participants in the meeting examined and accepted the draft on construction of the waste-water treatment plant in Soroca town. The project will last three years, once the financing agreement signed. Its cost is of about 7.7 million euros, of which 30 per cent represent a grant provided by Slovenia, 60 per cent – a loan provided by the Slovenian Bank and 10 per cent – earmarked by the Moldovan Ecological Fund.

At the same time, the officials examined and approved the opportunity to advance talks on financing of a project on renewable energy with the Spanish government. A 20-million-euro-worth credit for this project is meant for purchasing energy efficient equipment and will contribute to reducing Moldova’s dependence on energy resources import.

The participants in the meeting also discussed possibility of accessing a one-million-dollar-worth grant from the North Atlantic Alliance, within the Partnership for Peace Programme, for destruction of pesticides and dangerous chemicals  stocked in Moldova. 

Another subject tackled at the meeting was focused on possibility to revise and amend the Moldova-World Bank partnership strategy for 2015-2017, depending on the present priorities of the government. The strategy is aimed at economic development, poverty reduction, and sees instruments of financing for investment projects and sectoral programmes worth 450 million dollars in all. The priority projects are the ones from the area of constructions of roads to social units, as well as a project on fiscal administration in Moldova.   

Also today, the Inter-ministerial Committee on Strategic Planning agreed on opportunity to extend the mission of European advisers from 15 to 26, in order to boost the implementation of the Moldova-European Union Association Agreement, especially in the justice reformation sector, fighting corruption, ensuring stability in the financial and banking sector.

(Editor A. Raileanu)