{"id":445509,"date":"2018-05-08T17:07:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445509"},"modified":"2018-05-09T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:56:55","slug":"democrat-vp-cristina-balan-nominated-moldova-ambassador-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/democrat-vp-cristina-balan-nominated-moldova-ambassador-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat VP Cristina Balan nominated as Moldova Ambassador to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

8 May 2018- The leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Vlad Plahotniuc, announced during his weekly briefing<\/a> about the nomination of Cristina Balan in the position of Moldovan Ambassador to the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Balan’s nomination was consulted<\/a> with the Parliament’s Committee for Foreign Affairs and European Integration on the same day. Now, Balan has to be confirmed by the Government and then entrusted by the President of Moldova.\"Cristina<\/p>\n

Cristina Balan is the Vice-President of the Democratic Party, being in charge of the party’s foreign affairs. Balan is also an active member of the Socialist International, being part of the Committee for Budget and Finances. In 2017, she received the prize of the “Women of the Year in Politics”. According to her CV<\/a>, Balan has worked in private companies for more than 15 years. She is also the president of the Foundation for Modern Democracy.<\/p>\n\n

Foreign policy expert and PAS Vice-President, Mihai Pop\u0219oi, has criticized<\/a> the nomination of Balan, suggesting her Ambassadorship will serve the interests of her former boss, Vlad Plahotniuc:<\/p>\n

“The mission of Mrs. Balan at Washington will rather one of coordinating the lobby efforts of her party leader because PDM’s PR budget in the US is way bigger than that the budget of the Embassy. The decision to nominate a person without the necessary training, though from the closest circle of the coordinator, denotes the lack of human resources within PD, but also the lack of trust towards our diplomatic corps”<\/em>, posted Pop\u0219oi, mentioning that Balan participated the privatization of the Codru hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Moldova Representative at the UN, Vlad Lupan, believes that the approval of Balan by President Dodon would confirm the division of powers between the Socialist and the Democrat parties:<\/p>\n

“It would be interesting to learn what President Dodon got in exchange for the nomination of Mrs. Balan and Mr. Ciocoi in the control position of importance for Mr. Plahotniuc. This kind of “distribution” and the agreements with Dodon contradicts the narrative that PD is pro-Western”<\/em>, says Lupan<\/a>, mentioning the recent appointing of former Ambassador to US Aurel Ciocoi in the position of Dodon’s foreign policy adviser.<\/p>\n

Not denying that Balan might have negotiation experience in the business sphere, former Ambassador to the UN suggests that the business skills and the diplomacy school skills do not always match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>8 May 2018- The leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Vlad Plahotniuc, announced during his weekly briefing about the nomination of Cristina Balan in the position of Moldovan Ambassador to the United States of America. Balan’s nomination was consulted with the Parliament’s Committee for Foreign Affairs and European Integration on the same day. Now, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-445509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

8 May 2018- The leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Vlad Plahotniuc, announced during his weekly briefing<\/a> about the nomination of Cristina Balan in the position of Moldovan Ambassador to the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Balan’s nomination was consulted<\/a> with the Parliament’s Committee for Foreign Affairs and European Integration on the same day. Now, Balan has to be confirmed by the Government and then entrusted by the President of Moldova.\"Cristina<\/p>\n

Cristina Balan is the Vice-President of the Democratic Party, being in charge of the party’s foreign affairs. Balan is also an active member of the Socialist International, being part of the Committee for Budget and Finances. In 2017, she received the prize of the “Women of the Year in Politics”. According to her CV<\/a>, Balan has worked in private companies for more than 15 years. She is also the president of the Foundation for Modern Democracy.<\/p>\n\n

Foreign policy expert and PAS Vice-President, Mihai Pop\u0219oi, has criticized<\/a> the nomination of Balan, suggesting her Ambassadorship will serve the interests of her former boss, Vlad Plahotniuc:<\/p>\n

“The mission of Mrs. Balan at Washington will rather one of coordinating the lobby efforts of her party leader because PDM’s PR budget in the US is way bigger than that the budget of the Embassy. The decision to nominate a person without the necessary training, though from the closest circle of the coordinator, denotes the lack of human resources within PD, but also the lack of trust towards our diplomatic corps”<\/em>, posted Pop\u0219oi, mentioning that Balan participated the privatization of the Codru hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Moldova Representative at the UN, Vlad Lupan, believes that the approval of Balan by President Dodon would confirm the division of powers between the Socialist and the Democrat parties:<\/p>\n

“It would be interesting to learn what President Dodon got in exchange for the nomination of Mrs. Balan and Mr. Ciocoi in the control position of importance for Mr. Plahotniuc. This kind of “distribution” and the agreements with Dodon contradicts the narrative that PD is pro-Western”<\/em>, says Lupan<\/a>, mentioning the recent appointing of former Ambassador to US Aurel Ciocoi in the position of Dodon’s foreign policy adviser.<\/p>\n

Not denying that Balan might have negotiation experience in the business sphere, former Ambassador to the UN suggests that the business skills and the diplomacy school skills do not always match.<\/p>\n

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