Moldovan deputy economics ministry says Chisinau turned into capital of entrepreneurship last week

Chisinau, 9 October /MOLDPRES/ - The preliminary results of the Moldova Business week 2017 were unveiled at a today’s news conference. “We have managed to turn Chisinau into the capital of entrepreneurship last week,” Deputy Economics and Infrastructure Minister Vitalie Iurcu has said.    

The deputy minister noted that the sectors, in which Moldova had a competitive advantage, investments opportunities offered by the Free Economic Zones and Industrial Parks, facilities provided by them, had been presented. “I stressed that the Moldovan economy is an open one, due also to the agreements on free trade it has with the European Union and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and at present, we negotiate similar agreements with China and Egypt. We presented sectors and platforms of investments,” Vitalie Iurcu said.      

Iurcu also said that a programme on the creation of new jobs had been announced for the first time ever. The state will provide by 40,000 lei for each job created to the companies due to open at least 100 jobs, will offer salaries worth at least 75 per cent of the average salary on the economy and will not cut the number of jobs during three years.  

Vitalie Iurcu informed that, in 2018, 113 stock companies would be put up for privatization, including Moldtelecom, Air Moldova, the power distribution networks Nord and Nord-Vest, presently in the process of merger.    

Twenty entrepreneurs, nominated by the government as winners of the national contest, The Best Entrepreneur of the Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs) Sector, were awarded prizes at the International Conference of SMEs, carried out by the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises Sector Development. The deputy minister referred to a business forum Moldova-Italy as well.    

“Moldova Business Week 2017 exceeded all expectations, both as to the number of participants and the quality of the meetings,” the director of the Investments Attraction and Exports Promotion Organization (MIEPO) Vitalie Zaharia, said.

The MIEPO director informed that about 900 business people, local and foreign investors, authorities, financers, exporters from 20 countries participated in the opening day and the presence within the business meetings exceeded 300-350 business people,. “This proves an increased interest in the investment opportunities offered by Moldova,” Vitalie Zaharia added. The schedule of the events was structured on “three big components: investments, exports and business environment.”  

Moldova Business Week 2017 is a national and international business event, held on 3-6 October this year.

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor L. Alcaza)