DIRECTOR OF BUREAU FOR DIASPORA RELATIONS TENDERS RESIGNATION

Director of the Bureau for Ties with Diaspora Olga Coptu wrote about her resignation on Facebook.

"I tendered resignation. This is a crucial decision I consciously arrived to and I want to thank those who were near and who I cooperated with", Coptu said.

She wrote that there is still much to be done for the Diaspora, the migration and the development.

"Undoubtedly, in our country this field should be among priorities. No country strategy can be implemented without taking into account the compatriots from abroad", the official wrote.

She did not explain the reasons of resignation, neither what she will be doing in future, writing just that she is going to enjoy life.

Olga Coptu worked as head of the Bureau for Diaspora Relations since July 2016 at governmental order. She replaced former Bureau head Valeriu Turea, who was appointed advisor in the Moldovan Embassy in Romania.

Olga Coptu was labor migrant in Italy. She graduated from the Faculty of History of Moldova State University, while then Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations in the La Sapienza di Roma University. In 2009, Coptu started to publish a newspaper of Moldovan migrants "Gazeta Basarabiei", which was distributed among Moldovan labor migrants in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece. In 2014, Olga Coptu returned to Moldova. Before, she worked in the Bureau for Interethnic Relations and the Ministry of Culture.

Recently, rumors have been circling among Moldovan labor migrants abroad that at the autumn parliamentary elections Olga Coptu may candidate for one of MP mandates in election constituencies representing Moldovan Diaspora in Europe and the US. It is also known that Parliament Deputy Chairman Valeriu Ghiletchi will candidate for the mandate in US and Canada. On Tuesday, well-known journalist and civil activist Nata Albot announced on TV that she may also candidate to the Parliament from Diaspora. Several years ago, Albot departed to Canada, but then she came back to implement a number of projects in Moldova, including the Klumea Festival.