Moldova managed to restore confidence to development partners - PM says

Chisinau, 2 January /MOLDPRES/- Moldova has managed step by step to restore confidence to the development partners, including those who finance us. Prime Minister Pavel Filip made the statement in an interview to a private television channel.

The premier noted that in early 2016, Moldova was financially blocked by foreign partners following the crisis in our country. “None of the donors even wanted to hear about Moldova after bad things that have happened here. And here, step by step, we have managed to regain confidence before development partners. I am talking about international financial institutions. Moldova now has a program with the International Monetary Fund. The assessment report was approved and our country got the next installment worth 22.2 million dollars. This makes me very happy”, he said.

Filip said that a positive assessment of the IMF is a trustworthy certificate for Moldova. “Therefore I said that it is more important to me not what political opponents or opposition critics say. It is important what financial institutions say about us, such as the IMF or the World Bank. Therefore, I suggest to those who only come with criticism to read the IMF press release. In relation to the EU, I am very glad we managed to sign the macrofinancial assistance agreement.  By the way, we have already made the first ten conditions, which would mean we are eligible to get the first installment of macro-financial assistance. I hope this will happen in the first three months of 2018”, he said.

The EU’s macro-financial assistance amounts to 100 million euros, of which 60 million are loan 40 million – grant for Moldova. “At the same time, the direct budget support is still 36 million euros. Although we expected 21 million to evaluate four programs, the EU went on a higher amount because it assessed five programs. This direct budget support is called so because they money comes directly to the state budget and is used for public investment and general social investment”, he concluded.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor M. Jantovan)