Moldovan PM demands that ministers thoroughly prepare for IMF delegation's visit

Chisinau, 17 February /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip, at a today’s cabinet meeting, demanded that the government members pay increased attention to preparing a visit by a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), due on 23-29 February, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.  

In this respect, the prime minister instructed that the ministers, due to participate in discussions with the IMF representatives, prepare these meetings in detail and at the highest level. A first meeting on assessing the degree of preparing discussions with the IMF delegation’s representatives will be held on 19 February.

At the same time, the prime minister cleared up erroneous information spread in mass media in connection to the IMF delegation’s mission, due to come to Chisinau. “Personally, I have seen all kinds of interpretations on this period. Just as I informed two weeks ago, it is about a mission for evaluating the present situation, not about negotiations,” Pavel Filip specified.    

According to the prime minister, the negotiation of an agreement with IMF will depend on the discussions due to take place with the Fund’s delegation, which will come to Chisinau in late February. After this first visit and depending on the conclusions of the discussions, a new IMF delegation is to come to Chisinau, which is to hold the talks themselves on a new financing accord.    

The negotiation of an agreement with IMF is one of the priorities of the cabinet led by Pavel Filip. In late last January, the PM signed a letter addressed to the International Monetary Fund, in which he expressed the government’s openness to negotiate a new financing programme for Moldova. Also, that letter included an invitation for an evaluation mission of the Fund.

(Editor A. Raileanu)