“The process started,” said President Igor Dodon, who on his Facebook page published a letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation where this states is readiness to resume the negotiations on the provision of a €200 million loan to the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.

The letter signed by a deputy minister of finance makes reference to the request made by Prime Minister Ion Chicu to the Government of the Russian Federation on May 15. The Russian side says it is ready to restart the talks on the state loan.

The first agreement with Russia on the lending of €200 million to the Republic of Moldova was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court after almost nine hours of debates and two hours of deliberations. The Court held that the Government didn’t designate and didn’t empower an official delegation to negotiate the lending agreement. The negotiations were initiated in the absence of the appraisals of the Parliament’s commission on foreign policy and European integration and the Ministry of Justice concerning the draft agreement’s compatibility with the Constitution and the national legislation. The agreement was also signed in the absence of the appraisal of the commission on foreign policy, while Parliament ratified the agreement in the absence of a Constitutional Court judgment on its constitutionality, even if ta relevant requisition was pending at the Court.