Economics

​WE SHOULD EXPORT GOODS AND SERVICES, NOT PEOPLE, VALERIU LAZAR SAYS

05 june, 2014

“Our moral duty is to stop exporting good people we have, but to concentrate our efforts upon exporting goods and services”, said Valeriu Lazar, Deputy Premier and Minister of Economy of Moldova, at the Thursday Forum of Exporters, which opened the Moldova Business Week.

Around 200 representatives from a hundred Moldovan exporting companies, state institutions and business-associations participate at the event.

The Deputy Premier mentioned that the authorities’ main purpose is to create necessary conditions for people, so that they would remain in the country with their families and would produce expensive goods, designed for export.

According to him, the export development demands a better functioning of state institutions, which must provide conditions, necessary for civilized trade at lower cost.

“The Government’s most important issue is to ensure country’s institutes with all necessary, so that they would provide qualitative services”, said the Deputy Prime Minister.

He mentioned that authorities endeavor to modernize the trade and economic modernization in accordance with the EU agreements.

“The legislation modernization means that firstly we will accept the European game rules. According to these, we will increase the competitiveness of goods and services, which will have access not only to the European market, but also to other world markets. The RM-EU Association Agreement realization is not a goal in itself, but a necessary condition for the economy modernization, goods and services diversification”, said Lazar, adding that “without the quality improvement Moldova will not be competitive not only at the EU market, but also in the East, where the quality requirements increase as well”

Light Industry Patronage Association Chairman Alexandra Can mentioned that Moldova has diplomatic relations with many countries in different areas, less in the economic terms.

“We desire that economy reports, exchange of goods, technologies to be at the same level. We should have the courage to promote our products as other countries do”, said she.

Kelly Seybold, Director of the Business Regulatory, Investment and Trade Environment Program (BRITE) in Moldova, said that signing of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) provides new opportunities and advantages for the country’s economy and for exporters in particular, although it assumes certain risks.

“These are connected with the fact that state institutions could quickly get used to the new rules, while the corruption level in the society will remain comparatively high. In this context the Program comes to help Moldova in reforms’ implementation. It is directed to tax administration improvement, trade support, providing help to the authorities in amending the legislation and establishing an efficient connection between power and business”, said Seybold.

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