Cahul

A team of 42 doctors and nurses from Romania's Defence Ministry and Health Ministry will leave for Republic of Moldova to bolster the medical teams in the neighbouring country in the fight against COVID-19.

It's abnormal for Romania to have, for years, embassies without ambassadors, Theodor Paleologu, the People's Movement Party (PMP) candidate for the presidential elections, stated at a press conference in Iasi on Friday. "It's inadmissible for an embassy to not have ambassadors for more than two to three weeks.

Moldovan law-enforcement authorities have issued a national arrest warrant for Ilan Shor, the alleged mastermind behind the "grand theft" of one billion US dollars from the Moldovan banking system in 2014, who is believed to have left the country in mid-July.

AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca on Friday participated in the signing of the memorandum on Romania's Government funding the construction of the new building of the theatre of Cahul.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta is paying a visit to the Republic of Moldova on Friday aimed at carrying out several common actions with Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca, the Government's Press Office said in a release to AGERPRES.