Moldovan PM chairs cabinet meeting

Chisinau, 4 March /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu led a cabinet meeting today. The agenda comprised 25 subjects, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

In the beginning of the meeting, the PM asked Health Minister Dumbraveanu to unveil information on the epidemiological situation. Viorica Dumbraveanu informed about the identification of two cases of suspicion of infection with the new virus. Laboratory examination of samples confirmed that it had not been the case of the new-type coronavirus. The minister urged people to pay increased attention to measures of personal protection and hygiene.     

Viorica Dumbraveanu referred also to food intoxication in the school from the Cioc-Maidan village, southern Comrat district. Thirty six children aged between 11 and 15 years, whose condition record a positive dynamic, are hospitalized in medical institutions. The National Food Safety Agency (ANSA), National Public Health Agency (ANSP) and local public authorities reacted quickly, samples of dishes were collected, the employees in charge of nourishment were examined and the school’s canteen was inspected. Laboratory examinations are carried out and afterwards the measures provided for by the national norms will be undertaken.

The prime minister presented short information on the evolution of the collection of revenues to the state budget, noting that the latter were by 1.21 billion higher against the same period of 2019 and had increased on all dimensions of the state budget. Chicu highlighted the result of the work of the Customs Service, which showed an increase of revenues by more than 25 per cent. Ion Chicu thanked the economic agents for compliance and transparent cooperation.  

The government’s secretary general, Liliana Iaconi, presented a draft, according to which the duties of creation and maintenance of the register of state information resources and systems are transmitted from the Public Services Agency to the Agency for Electronic Governance.   

The government approved the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the State Chancellery and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation for the first phase of a project titled, I get involved – Project of civic involvement in the local government. The first phase will be carried out till 2023 and has a budget of 5.9 million Swiss francs.   

Minister Corneliu Popovici unveiled a project on the initiation of negotiations and signing of the Agreement on Grant with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. The Agreement’s goal is to digitize the book fund of Moldova’s National Library. The government of Japan will allocate as grant 43.7 million Japanese yen, which will be used to buy and set equipment and consultancy services.       

The participants in the cabinet meeting approved the extension of the Balti Free Economic Zone (FEZ) with a ground of 11 hectares in the Parata village, eastern Dubasari district. The goal of the FEZ’s extension to the region is to bring jobs close to the homes of about 35,000 people. As many as 8,408 people aged between 15 and 29 years, 8,056 people aged between 30 and 44 years and 7,239 people aged between 45 and 59 years are recorded in this district.     

The government approved a draft meant to back the war veterans and the family members of those who died on battlefield, disabled people in the wake of the war and the family members of the participants in the Chernobyl accident relief works. A number of 1,033 people will benefit from support; they will receive increased allowances from 250 to 500 lei.

The director of the Public Property Agency (APP), Ghenadie Tepordei, presented for approval a draft on the privatization of public property assets. The draft provides for exclusion from the list of assets subjected to privatization the stock companies North Power Distribution Networks, North Electric Energy Supply, the state enterprise Costesti Hydro-power Knot, Moldtelecom stock company and others. A string of assets, among which the state’s quota of 78.282 per cent in the stock company Metalferos, were included in the list of assets subjected to privatization.