OREANDA-NEWS. January 30, 2013. The executive director of the Moldovan Investment and Export Promotion Organisation, Denis Jelimalai during a news conference today, said the management board of the Investment Attraction and Export Promotion Fund has approved an action plan for 2013.

Hence, the main goal for 2013 is to inform regional foreign companies of investment opportunities in Moldova.

"Foreign companies of the region are more willing to invest in Moldova, compared to companies from Western Europe or USA, which are less acquainted with Moldova's peculiarities and advantages. However, we do not reject potential investment opportunities with the latter ones," Jelimalai said. He said 12 companies operating in the light industry and trade sectors have already established joint projects, amounting to 15 million euros, with Russian business partners.

Also Jelimalai said Swedish businessmen are willing to invest in the development of the Moldovan orchards.

The MIEPO's action plan provides for the organisation of business forums, export promotion and investment attraction events that would focus on concrete sectors or countries. Also MIEPO plans to elaborate a number of market feasibility studies and electronic applications to present the investment potential.

An investment forum will be held in Chisinau in 2013, with the support of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and the International Financial Corporation (IFC). Hence, experts plan to finance a number of infrastructure development studies of the cultural-natural reserve "Orheiul Vechi", as it is an important destination both for Moldovan and foreign tourists.

MIEPO said it will closely cooperate with the Public Property Agency (PPA) in order to promote the privatisation process and public-private partnership projects within various international events, via well "targeted" actions.