Career
Iacob Timciuc served as minister of energy (2001–2005), before moving to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and serving as Moldovan ambassador to China (2006) and then ambassador to of Korea (2007). He was appointed as Moldovan minister of local public administration in a Cabinet reshuffle on 10 June 2009. Iacob Timciuc declared on March 17, 2010 after the plenary session that he quits the Communists" Party, as "it has adopted an anti-national attitude, ignoring the party"s general opinion.