The memorandum signed by the Republic of Moldova and the International Monterey Fund in November 2016 helped the Moldovan authorities restore foreign partners’ confidence, Prime Minister Pavel Filip said in a meeting with the IMF staff mission that is visiting Chisinau, IPN reports.

According to the Government’s press service, the interlocutors discussed the recent economic and social developments in Moldova, the progress made in implementing the memorandum with the IMF and the actions that are to be taken to implement this. “We will take all the necessary steps to have a successful IMF mission in autumn,” stated Pavel Filip.

There were also discussed the most important reforms and the priority reform action roadmap of the Government and Parliament for the period until this yearend. “This roadmap is a signal that we will continue to implement the reform agenda as reforms are done not for the IMF or the EU, but for the citizens of the Republic of Moldova,” said Pavel Filip.

Head of the IMF mission Ben Kelmanson said the goal of the visit to Moldova is to collect facts about the macroeconomic situation and to discuss the budgetary-fiscal, monetary and other relevant policies ahead of the second program review that is due in fall 2017.

The IMF staff mission led by Ben Kelmanson will visit Chisinau during July 17-21. Such staff visits are standard practice in program cases outside of the formal cycle of program reviews when it is about countries that have IMF-supported programs.