„Good afternoon!

The today’s topic of the cabinet meeting is a special one. We can say as just extraordinary. You know the circumstances that were the basis for the decision to convene today. The reason is very clear. Unfortunately, certain laws – that are extremely important to the country, society, to meeting commitments we have assumed – cannot be voted by the parliament. Yet, the draft laws are extremely important.

On this occasion, I invited you to this meeting to propose government’s responsibility towards the parliament on a larger set of laws.

Surely, it is an exceptional way of approving laws, but it is perfectly constitutional and even necessary in some moments. The period we are going through now is extremely complicated, complex, with older and new challenges. Today, unfortunately, is the day when certain sanctions enter into force. They are imposed by the partners from Moscow and are related to the export of fruits and vegetables of certain category. We have other problems to counteract.

In this context, a string of laws were not voted in the parliament, and some draft laws were not debated in the plenum of the parliament! Surely, it generates some questions, but it motivates us to hold this extraordinary meeting.

I would like to say that this approach was not only coordinated, but discussed in details with the parliament’s leadership, speaker Igor Corman, our colleagues and coalition leaders. Most of you have been involved in these talks. Thus, I want to anticipate possible reactions, such as there would be certain cracks or problems in coalition. I want to assure Moldovans: the coalition is functional further. The government along with the coalition leaders do their job. We have a common approach. We have shown and will show today we have the necessary insight and are able to advance in, as well as to do so that we should meet all commitments we have assumed.

I was saying that some draft laws very important to us have been blocked in commissions, especially, the commission on economy, budget and finance. For this reason, dear colleagues, it is imperative to identify solutions to these laws to be approved. I propose you to focus on several bills. From my point of view, we can divide them into several compartments.

The first one is related to continuing justice reform. It is about three draft laws: immunity of judges in certain circumstances, disciplinary responsibility of judges or liquidation of Bender-based Court of Appeal. We reached the conclusion that this high court must be liquidated in order to have a more transparent process in justice, and I hope that this decision will help us go forward.

The second chapter is focused on transparency in financial-banking sector and need to make rule in insurance sector.

The third issue is referring to rectification of the state budget and social insurance budget. During the last months, we had debates, analysis, talks, meant to ensure the economic growth registered especially over the past four years. The year of 2013 was good. This year is the same, we have economic growth. Thus, we must do budget rectifications meant to increase wages and allowances to pensions. As we agreed, these increases are made in a not just transparent way, but also highly sustainable one, so that in 2015, we should be able to ensure maintenance of these wages and even, to think about further improvement in wage for teachers, educators and librarians, as well as for those employed in the field of culture. Surely, I also refer to pensions, mainly, for the most vulnerable categories.

As I mentioned, these issues have been discussed with Corman and parliament’s leadership. He was dissatisfied with activity of certain commissions. We talked to the parliament’s leadership and our colleagues- coalition leaders- on the way we will do it, and we found a consensual approach with our colleagues. Thus, the decision we are going to take today is fair not only from the political and legal point of view, but also in terms of people’s expectations.

I want to again express regret - I said from the very beginning that we are passing through a very complicated period. I just wish that in such situation – when there are such challenges to economic security of Moldova – our society should be able to give proof of unity and solidarity. It means the opposition should also be in solidarity. The today’s sanctions are less explicit that those in 2006.

That’s why, I regret very much that the opposition refused to commit in identifying solutions, and chosen another way. I am curious of messages by opposition leaders in the Russian capital, and why they failed to get favorable decisions for Moldova.

For the time being, I propose to meditate on provisional implementation of Free Trade Agreement with the EU, which will allow benefiting from quotas for apples, plums, grapes, so that our farmers, producers of these products, winemakers and exporters should not be prejudiced by these sanctions.

Initially, our idea was to enforce the agreement starting from 1 October, but we can apply it from 1 September, and I think it would be a judicious approach to be able to start the exports as soon as possible.

Moreover, we must have a campaign of actions, including the financial support, a campaign for backing local producer, especially, those who are involved in agriculture. Yet, this campaign for supporting our farmers should perfectly coincide with our commitments to create better conditions and to promote a healthy lifestyle."