Moldovan PM says leadership's responsibility to efficiently, transparently use money seen in three financing agreements

Chisinau, 26 July /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Maia Sandu, in the beginning of a today’s cabinet meeting, highlighted the results of her official visit to Brussels, where three financing agreements for Moldova were signed. Maia Sandu noted that, during the visit, he had received assurances from more political families that the Moldovan cabinet would enjoy every support and openness on behalf of EU, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

„Everybody is putting hope in the new governance and we want to succeed. In the past, Moldova disappointed and now the people gave us a new chance and told us that they are happy that they finally discuss well about Moldova in the European institutions. Those three financing agreements represent money which we should not return. Our responsibility is to use it efficiently and transparently,” the prime minister said. At the same time, she specified that some problems had been detected at public institutions in terms of the turning to good account and assimilation of the foreign financial means, earlier allocated for social projects in Moldova. In the context, the PM asked the Finance Ministry and the State Chancellery to make an assessment of the competent institutions which do not manage to assimilate, in due time, the foreign financings.       

The participants in the meeting also pointed out the results of the meeting of the inter-ministerial working group between Moldova and Romania, held in Bucharest on 23 July 2019. Attending the event were more cabinet members and the sides established more actions for the implementation of concrete projects for the benefit of the citizens, in diverse fields: environmental and waters’ protection, education, culture, health, domestic affairs and cross-border cooperation, public money, as well as telecommunications.   

Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Nicu Popescu said that the participants in the meeting had discussed including the advancement of the construction of the Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline, so that it is already functional by the spring of 2020 and the citizens have Romanian gas in their gas stoves. At the same time, the sides agreed on the road inter-connection through the construction and renovation of bridges, for facilitating citizens’ movement. Prime Minister Maia Sandu appreciated the progress made during the strategic discussions with the Romanian partners.  

In another context, the prime minister referred to the current danger in the wake of the detection of the African swine fever virus in the southern Cahul and central Nisporeni districts. Thus, the PM asked specialists of the National Food Safety Agency to act promptly, in order to localize the virus and avoid its spread in the neighbour settlements.