More than 30 states and tens of international and financial organizations will be represented at the Fourth Moldova Support Platform Summit that will take place in Moldova on October 17. The Platform was launched on the initiative of Romania, Germany and France to mobilize the support needed by Moldova in three main development directions: budget support, creation of an Infrastructure Fund and creation of a Residential Energy Efficiency Fund, IPN reports.
According to the agenda, a series of memorandums will be signed for the Republic of Moldova. Later, the event will be opened by Prime Minister Dorin Recean. The co-founders of the Platform – the heads of the French, German and Romanian delegations – will have opening remarks.
Later, the participants will discuss the presentations by Minister of Energy Victor Parlicov and Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Andrei Spînu. After the roundtable meeting, the officials will formulate the results and conclusions on hematic working groups centering on six pillars: humanitarian effort, energy, anticorruption, border management, financial assistance, administration reform, and management of public finance.
The event will end with President Maia Sandu’s speech that will be followed by a news conference given by the foreign affairs ministers of the four countries – France, Germany, Romania, and Moldova. The conference will be broadcast live on the Government’s Facebook pace.
At the previous Moldova Support Platform Summits held in Berlin, Paris and Bucharest, Moldova was offered support to subsidize the heat and power bills, to offer assistance to farmers and to implement infrastructure projects.
