Moldovan producers alarmed by financial crisis: association president

The Moldovan producers already feel the aftereffects of the world financial crisis, the president of the Producers National Association (PNA), Vasile Tarlev, is quoted by Info-Prim Neo as saying. Vasile Tarlev told a news conference Wednesday that, in the producers' opinion, the global financial crisis will necessarily strike Moldova. “We're not living in an isolated space, and, whether we want it or not, we are stricken by the effects of the crisis.” According to the PNA president, the producers are alarmed because of not being able to get bank loans. The lack of liquidity has been a reason why the grape gorwers and wine makers found it hard to sell their output. Fluctuations on the currency market, the euro's and dollar's depreciation struck the exporters mostly, ex-premier Tarlev says. He got similar signals from companies working in constructions and freight. To overcome the effects of the crisis, the PNA suggests to develop a national program. Tarlev calls on associations of professionals to take part in working out the program. According to Vasile Tarlev, as many as 500 managers are members of the PNA. 10 companies in which the government has stakes have recently left the NGO. Tarlev says their managers were forced to leave, being threatened to be dismissed. He says this is part of a scenario of discrediting the former prime-minister, who took to politics by being elected as the president of the Centrist Union from Moldova.