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IMF MISSION DUE IN CHISINAU ON DECEMBER 18 TO CLARIFY
OBJECTIONS TOWARDS MOLDOVAN LEADERSHIP

Chisinau-17.12.2001/12:32:21/(BASA-economic) A group of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts is expected in Chisinau
on December 18 for a three-day fact learning visit. The group will
be led by Richard Haas, advisor in the IMF's European II
Department, and will clarify if the Fund's objections towards the
recent actions of the Moldovan leadership are founded.

The IMF has objections especially towards the intention of the
Chisinau authorities to restore the Soviet administrative-territorial
system based on districts and towards the Moldovan-Russian agreement
on the supply with natural gases.

The talks with the IMF team will begin on December 19 and will
end on December 21. Chisinau hopes that the IMF's assessment
"ends successfully."

Yet the IMF representatives refuse to comment the latest
developments in the relations with the Moldovan government, it is
sure that the working agenda of the IMF's Board of Directors'
December 21 meeting does not include the approval of the next
tranche from a 142-million-dollar loan for Moldova.

"We have honoured all conditions and we were ready to sign the
document on December 2-3, but we did not do so because of some
questions which the IMF was waiting for an answer," government
officials stated.

In early December, the government released the Moldovan-Russian
agreement on gas supply to the Fund. Moldovan economics officials
said that IMF might have objections, because the interest rate of
5.75 and 7 percent stipulated in the agreement contradicted
Chisinau's commitments to take loans only at preferential interests
(up to 1 percent).

In addition, a part of the payments for gases has been rescheduled
for a three-year period, while the debts for a 11-year period,
conditions which are not concessional (30-40 years).

The leader of the parliamentary group Braghis Alliance, Dumitru
Braghis, has said at a news conference that the intention of the
communists to restore the Soviet administrative-territorial system
and to hold earlier local polls would harm even more the ties with
the international financial bodies.
 

O MISIUNE A FMI VA SOSI LA 18 DECEMBRIE LA CHISINAU PENTRU A SE CLARIFICA IN CHESTIUNI FATA DE CARE FONDUL ARE OBIECTII

Chisinau-17.12.2001/11:54:25/(BASA-economic) O misiune a Fondului Monetar International, condusa de consilierul in Departamentul II Europa al FMI, Richard Haas, va sosi la 18 decembrie la Chisinau pentru a clarifica daca sunt intemeiate obiectiile pe care le are Fondul fata de unele actiuni sau intentii de ultima ora ale puterii din Republica Moldova.

FMI are obiectii, in particular, fata de intentia autoritatilor de la Chisinau de a reveni la organizarea teritorial-administrativa a R. Moldova din perioada sovietica si fata de acordul moldo-rus privind livrarea de gaze naturale.

Negocierile cu echipa FMI, care vor incepe la 19 decembrie, vor continua pana pe data de 21 decembrie. Chisinaul spera ca evaluarea echipei FMI "sa se incheie cu bine".

Desi reprezentantii FMI se abtin sa comenteze evolutiile de ultima ora in relatiile cu Guvernul moldovean, cu certitudine se stie ca pe agenda Consiliului director al FMI din 21 decembrie nu figureaza chestiunea privind aprobarea transei urmatoare din creditul in suma de 142 milioane USD pentru R.Moldova.

"Am indeplinit toate conditiile si eram gata sa semnam protocolul cu FMI la 2-3 decembrie, dar nu am facut acest lucru, deoarece au aparut unele intrebari la care Fondul Monetar International asteapta raspuns", au declarat oficiali din Guvern.

La inceputul lunii decembrie Guvernul a expediat Fondului, la solicitarea acestuia, acordul interguvernamental moldo-rus privind livrarea gazelor naturale in R.Moldova. Oficiali de la Ministerul Economiei au declarat ca FMI ar putea sa aiba obiectii, deoarece ratele dobanzii de 5,75% si de 7% prevazute de acord contravin angajamentelor Chisinaului de a contracta doar credite la dobanzi preferentiale (pana la 1%).

In plus, o parte din platile pentru gaze au fost reesalonate pe un termen de 3 ani, iar datoriile pe o perioada de 11 ani, conditii care nu sunt concesionale (30 ani - 40 ani).

Liderul grupului parlamentar "Alianta Braghis", Dumitru Braghis, a declarat intr-o conferinta de presa ca intentia comunistilor de a reveni la raioane si de a convoca alegeri anticipate va tensiona si mai mult relatiile cu organismele financiare internationale.