President Maia Sandu a signed the decrees on the appointment of the ambassadors of the Republic of Moldova to the U.S., Belgium, Greece, and Austria. These are Viorel Ursu, Viorel Cibotaru, Andrei Popov and Mihaela Mocanu, IPN reports.

The post of Ambassador to the U.S will be held by Viorel Ursu who since January 2014 had headed the Europe and Eurasia Program Department and also serves as regional director at the Open Society Foundations in London. He worked as a consultant and programs coordinator at Soros Foundation Moldova and for 11 years served as a senior fellow at the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels.

Viorel Cibotaru will serve as Moldova’s Ambassador to Belgium. He is the executive director of the European Institute for Political Studies of Moldova. He has experience in the academic and public sectors. He worked as a lecturer at the Department of Journalism, as programs director at the Institute for Public Policy and as director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center. In 2015, he served as minister of defense. In 2016-2018, he headed the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova.Andrei Popov will work in Greece. In 2013-2016, he served as

Andrei Popov will work n Greece. In 2013-2016, he served as Moldova’s Ambassador to Austria and, simultaneously, to Slovakia and as Moldova’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE and the United Nations Office at Vienna, etc.

Mihaela Mocanu will serve as Ambassador to Austria. Since October 2019, she has held the post of head of the OSCE and International Security Unit of the Multilateral Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.

President Sandu also signed the decree to name Moldova’s Ambassador to Ukraine Valeriu Chiveri also as Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, based in Kyiv, while Moldova’s Ambassador to Russia Lilian Darii also as Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based in Moscow.