Prime Minister Iurie Leanca today had a meeting with representatives of state institutions in charge of enforcing the Compact Programme, financed by the U.S. Government via the Millennium Challenges Corporation.

The participants in the event ruled to set up a working group meant to assess the performance achieved by Moldova in meeting the goals of the Compact programme and to identify actions that would ensure the country’s eligibility for a new programme of the Corporation.

In the context, Leanca touched upon the need to boost the fight against corruption, ensure a permanent economic growth, strengthen energy security and to draw investments by a higher degree of transparency, responsibility, as well as law supremacy. The issues were discussed at a phone conversation between Iurie Leanca and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Leanca said “It is needed to strengthen our efforts, all state institutions, including the prosecution, National Anti-Corruption Centre, Court of Accounts in order to move forward in the reform process, in order to consolidate the democratic state and optimise the governance”.

Moldova benefitted from national road and irrigation system restoration projects amounting to 262 million dollars, within the Compact programme.