P.M. Filat heads to U.S. to sign agreement on 262-million-dollar financial assistance; to meet U.S. State Sec Clinton, U.N. SecGen Moon

Prime Minister Vlad Filat and a series of other officials headed to Washington, D.C. yesterday to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Mr. Filat and Ms. Clinton will sign an agreement granting Moldova 262 million dollars through the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Mr. Filat will also meet with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

The ruling Alliance for European Integration seeks closer ties with the United States and the European Union, and is visibly more pro-Western than the previous Communist Government.