Moldovan deputy premier for reintegration pays fact-collecting visit to eastern district's settlements

Chisinau, 9 December /MOLDPRES/ - Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Olga Cebotari on 8 December paid a working visit to the Molovata Noua settlement, eastern Dubasari district, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.  
The official’s first visit to settlements from the Security Zone took place in the context of an invitation received on behalf of the Molovata Noua village on finishing the implementation of two projects financed through the programme of activities for Moldova’s reintegration for 2020 (PART 2020).
At the same time, the visit gave possibility to collect facts on the spot about the problems of the residents and consider possible interventions and the necessary assistance on behalf of the central public authorities.
Olga Cebotari, accompanied by representatives of the Reintegration Policies Bureau, had a joint discussion with the head of the Dubasari district, Grigore Filipov, mayor of the Molovata Noua village, Oleg Gazea, head of the Chisinau territorial office of the State Chancellery, Veaceslav Anghel, the headmasters of the Anatol Codru gymnasium and the community centre.     
The participants in the discussions examined the degree of implementation of the projects financed through PART for 2020, residents’ current difficulties, as well as the ones triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, carrying out of the online education process and migration processes.  
Another subject regarded the free movement and ways of access from/to five settlements from the Cocieri plateau: Molovata Noua, Roghi, Cocieri, Vasilievca, Corjova and the Dubasari town.
The sides also discussed the issue of access way as a result of the presence of the infrastructure of the control posts set in an unauthorized way by Tiraspol’s representatives and ways of ensuring the free movement of people, goods and transport means.
Special attention was paid to ways of ensuring access to the plateau through the ferryboat, which during winter can be blocked because of the ice on the Dniester river and respectively, it is necessary to identify alternative access ways.
At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Cebotari also met the manager of the state enterprise Bacul Molovata, Vitalie Gatcan; the sides discussed the need to reopen the routes of an additional ferryboat, in order to enhance the capacity of transportation and modernization of the port and transport infrastructure. Attending the discussions, the head of the Chisinau territorial office of the State Chancellery, Veaceslav Anghel, gave assurances that he would personally get involved in the settlement of problems dealing with the arranging facilities for the ferry’s passengers.
This year, the number of passengers and transport means who crossed the Dniester river by the ferry increased significantly. In the first half of 2020 alone, the number of passengers and transport means who used the ferryboat grew by 12,000 units each and the volume of goods carried increased by 23,000 tons up to almost 70,000 tons.   
Also, at initiatives by the Reintegration Policies Bureau, in the first half of this year, the ferryboat made by 90 routes more against the same period of the year before and the schedule of the ferryboat’s movement was extended by several hours.
In the context, it is worth mentioning that, starting from 2011, the mayoralty of the Molovata Noua village has benefited from financing worth 2.4 million lei for implementing projects through PART.  
Also, it is worth to be mentioned that, in 2020, 15 million lei was allocated for financing 42 activities in the settlements from the Security Zone.  
As many as 435 projects/activities worth about 126.74 million lei have been implemented in the settlements placed in the perimeter of Moldova’s Security Zone.
photo: Reintegration Policies Bureau