Moldovan investment attraction organisation set to yearly woo five new investment projects

Chisinau, 29 April /MOLDPRES/ - The Investment Attraction and Exports Promotion Organisation (MIEPO) is set to bring to Moldova at least five new investment projects annually, which are to generate over 1,000 jobs. The objective is provided for the Strategic Development Plan (PSD) for 2016-2020, approved by the MIEPO Coordination Council today.

To achieve this goal, “the institution will put emphasis on connecting national companies to global value chains, promotion of a pro-active role in implementing governmental policies on all dimensions, development of new partnerships both with multinational companies already present on the Moldovan market and with another new ones, working in the region or on the markets of the European Union, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the USA, MIEPO director Vitalie Zaharia has said.   

PSD ascertains that MIEPO’s priority activity sectors will be agriculture and food industry, industry of fabricating textile goods, information technology and communications.  

Attending the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister, Economics Minister Octavian Calmic stressed that the new MIEPO’s Strategic Development Plan was ambitious and needed new approaches.  ”During all its existence, MIEPO was focused mostly on carrying out export projects. At present, we demand that the institution put more emphasis on attracting investments, as the development of modern production, at European standards in Moldova, will facilitate not only the revival of different sectors of the national economy, but also of exports,” the minister said.   

(Reporter A. Mardare, editor L. Alcaza)