Talks in Chisinau on more US assistance to Moldova
Deputy Prime Minister, Economics Minister Valeriu Lazar has met a delegation of the Office of the Coordinator of US Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (OCAEE), comprising deputy director Kathy Kavalek and reviewer for Moldova Gregory Gardner.
The Economics Ministry's public relations service has said that the meeting's goal was to discuss the correlation of the US assistance programmes given to Moldova with the new priorities in the Moldovan economic sector.
Valeriu Lazar said that the US representatives' visit is important now that Moldova is working on specific objectives and priorities for a meeting of the Consultative Group of Donors due on 24 March 2010.
For her part, Kathy Kavalek stressed the mission's openness for maintaining productive dialogue. She emphasized that the economic fields selected by the Economics Ministry to implement technical assistance projects are relevant and coincide with the ones identified by the OCAEE. Among these fields there are: promoting the mechanism of public-private partnership, developing business incubators, industrial parks, consolidating the field of promotion of regional development, etc.
The delegation members described the new political context as favourable for the implementation of economic projects. They said that the technical assistance will increase up to 20 million dollars in 2010, with 15 million provided in 2009.
The delegation of the Office of the Coordinator of US Assistance to Europe and Eurasia paid a working visit to Chisinau last week. The visit's goal was to revise the USA's assistance programmes for Moldova so as to adjust them to the country's current priorities and correlate to the assistance programmes offered to Moldova by the international donors' community.
The agenda of the US delegation included meetings with representatives of the World Bank, European Union and the principal bilateral assistance organizations from Sweden (Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and Norway. At the same time, the American delegation had meetings with Moldovan government's representatives, according to the Economics Ministry's public relations service.
Moldpres, Moldova state news agency
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