Moldovan president Maia Sandu said the country had lost 60 million euro ($70.7 million) out of a 100 million euro non-reimbursable financial assistance programme agreed with neighboring Romania in 2010, due to the refusal of the current interim government and its predecessor to extend the agreement.
At a time of deep crisis, Moldova is missing important financial support, because the country's government had refused to sign the additional protocol needed for the extension of the agreement, Sandu said in a social media post on Sunday.
Moldova will try to resume talks with Romania for a new assistance program, Sandu added.
On Sunday, Romania's foreign ministry announced that the agreement expired on March 28, after Moldova's government said that it does not have a mandate to sign the protocol, because it is an interim cabinet lacking the support of the parliament
Moldova has been run by a caretaker government led by foreign minister Aurel Ciocoi since December, when former prime minister Ion Chicu resigned in a move aimed to prompt early parliamentary elections.
Last week, a cabinet proposed by Moldovan prime minister-designate Igor Grosu failed to obtain parliament's approval due to lack of quorum.
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