Moldova has been unable to secure a new assistance program from the United States’ Millennium Challenge Corporation until now because of increasingly pervasive corruption. Nicu Popescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, wrote on Facebook about this after meeting with US Ambassador Dereck J. Hogan.

According to Nicu Popescu, the US ambassador assured the authorities in  Chisinau of the full support as to the country’s possibility to benefit from a new program from MCC. But stepping up the fight against corruption represents a precondition for this.

The issue of bilateral contacts that will take place at several levels between Moldova and the United States in the near future was also discussed at the meeting.