The Ministry of Economy and the Moldovan Investment and Export Promotion Organization will hold a meeting of the Vienna Economic Forum in Chisinau on June 10-11. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar said it is a large-scale event designed to strengthen the efforts aimed at attaching foreign direct investment, IPN reports.

According to the draft agenda, the event will involve national entrepreneurs, representatives of business associations, financial institutions and of foreign companies representing the Vienna Economic Forum.

Founded in 2004, the Vienna Economic Forum is one of the most important European nongovernmental associations that includes Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Its major objective is to popularize and promote investment opportunities in the region from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea.