Moldovan PM says reforms plan to be coordinated with IMF experts

Chisinau, 4 May /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip, in the beginning of a today cabinet meeting, said that the reforms’ plan would be coordinated with the team of experts of the International Monetary Fund, due to come to Chisinau on 23 May.    

“We have a new IMF mission confirmed for late May. We have much to discuss and much to work along with the colleagues, as we have a very ambitious reforms’ plan and I want to stress that we do not accept reforms imposed by somebody, but we have our own reforms’ plan,” the prime minister said. “This is a quite deep and comprehensive plan, that will be given the final touches later this week and I am fully confident that, on the immediately next period, quite possible in June, we will have an IMF mission for negotiating the country programme,” Pavel Filip noted.  

“We have all determination and maximum of responsibility to sign a new Agreement. We are quite transparent; therefore, I wanted to make this announcement. This is a mission and a programme exactly how we have set to have,” the PM stressed.  

An experts’ team of the International Monetary Fund, led by de Ivanna Vladkova-Hollar, will visit Chisinau on 23-27 May 2016, IMF resident representative in Moldova Armine Khachatryan said today.  

The mission intends to continue “the dialogue on economic policies and advance in discussing the reforms proposed by the government and National Bank of Moldova as important elements of a new programme backed by IMF.” The IMF resident specified that “the mission will not have a mandate for signing an agreement on a new programme.”  

This is the second IMF mission this year. A team of experts of the Fund visited Chisinau on 23-29 February.

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor L. Alcaza)