An international forum called “Invest Gagauzia 2020” began on Friday in Comrat town, the administrative center of the southern Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia, for a 6th time. This year, the forum is being held in an unusual format – at the Comrat Stadium.

The important-most condition for investment attraction is a real, efficient struggle against corruption, Ambassador Peter Michalko, the Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Moldova, stated in Comrat on Friday at the opening of the 6th international investment forum “Invest Gagauzia 2020”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the Moldovan economy is so hard-wired to Russia that it cannot exist independently, so far. Putin stated this in his 3-hour-long address to the Thursday’s meeting of the International Discussion Club “Valdai”, in which he inter alia touched on the developments in Moldova taking place in the lead up to the November 1 presidential election.

The October 22 scheduled weekly working meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC, the supervisory body for the Joint Peacekeeping Forces) failed to be held once again because the Chisinau and Tiraspol delegations failed to achieve a consensus over its agenda.