Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat is in the United States to sign an agreement with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, which will grant Chisinau 262 million U.S. dollars.
Mr. Filat has met with numerous American and world officials, including United Nations head Ban-ki Moon.
He also had a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden today, who told Mr. Filat that the U.S. supports Moldova's democratic reforms and European Union membership aspirations.
During meetings with Howard L. Berman, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Relations, Congressman Ron Klein, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, as well as North Carolina Senators Kay Hagan and Richard Burr, the American officials talked to Mr. Filat about the human trafficking problems in Moldova and expressed an interest in starting a "Friends of Moldova" group in the Senate.
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