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Activity of the President on March 2–16, 2009

Decrees

The Honour Order was awarded to the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Mr. Terry Davis.

The crew of SAAB-200 airbus of the Carpatair Company was awarded for high professionalism and sacrifice spirit proved in the emergency which occurred during the Chisinau-Timisoara flight: the Honour Order was awarded to pilots Leonid Babivschi and Iurie Oleacov and the Civic Merit Medal was awarded to stewardesses Natalia Borozan and Violeta Tibulschi.

The Labour Glory Order was awarded to:

Outgoing United Kingdom Ambassador to Moldova John Beyer was awarded the Civic Merit Medal.

Sittings. Decisions. Statements

Increased social protection for veterans

Moldova’s president has convoked a working sitting on actions to be taken in connection with the 65th anniversary of Moldova’s liberation from fascist occupation. In particular, the sitting focused on social support for former participants and invalids of the World War II, with Vladimir Voronin raising initiatives aimed to enhance the social protection for WWII invalids and participants, including a 50-percent rise of state allocation for these people.

State security and consumer protection

A sitting of the Supreme Security Council has tackled the protection of consumer rights, with the chief of state saying that the present situation is alarming and demanding urgent actions to improve it. It was mentioned among shortcomings the imperfect legal and institutional framework; inefficient functioning of control bodies in the field of protection of consumer rights; jeopardised public health and security of population. The chief of state indicated the need to establish very strict requirements for imported commodities.

Positive evolution of macroeconomic indicators

The presidential administration has convoked a meeting on financial-economic situation and actions taken by authorities to maintain financial stability, which found that a positive evolution of macroeconomic indicators is observed in Moldova this year despite the difficult economic environment in the region. In the context of continuing the implementation of social programmes released by authorities, it was discussed the preparation of the second round of indexation of deposits of people in Banca de Economii, with the Government being expected to present an implementation mechanism shortly. Vladimir Voronin insisted on special importance of maintaining an exigent control on economic-financial situation.

Note by ADEPT: Trends of the leu devaluation versus main foreign currencies were observed shortly after the meeting concerned, with authorities blaming public statements delivered by economic commentators and published by the media for this situation.

Increased attention for agro-food sector

A meeting convoked by chief of state has considered situation in agro-food sector and necessary actions to conduct successful spring agricultural works. It was noted that autumn crops are in a satisfactory condition and all necessary seeds are available. Current problems of agro-food complex include among others the lack of sale markets, circulating means, little possibilities of agricultural producers to get bank credits, as the interest rate is very high, failure of processing enterprises to pay raw material suppliers. Participants in the sitting worked out organisational, financial-bank and budgetary proposals which shall be implemented in order to improve the situation in agro-industrial complex: auctions held to purchase 40,000 tons of fodder wheat for the state reserve shall be finalised; the Fiscal Inspectorate shall not block accounts of agricultural enterprises throughout spring works; an efficient system shall be elaborated to reimburse the VAT operatively to farmers; a mechanism shall be set up to monitor the use of funds by commercial banks and reduce the interest rate on credits granted to agriculture; credits formerly granted by commercial banks to agro-industrial economic agents shall be restructured. The chief of state stressed the necessity to plant 7,000 hectares of vineyards and 5,000 hectares of orchards and work out a schedule of payment of debts by crop processing enterprises to agricultural producers for the production purchased in 2008.

February 15 – March 1, 2009 March 17–31, 2009