The Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry held the meeting between Vitaly Ignatiev and OSCE delegation led by Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Thomas Mayr-Harting.
Vadim Krasnoselsky and Vitaly Ignatiev discussed the situation in the negotiation process. The main issue of the working meeting was the situation within restrictive measures initiated by Moldova towards Pridnestrovian vehicles. The Head of the Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry confirmed the fulfillment of the President’s order to inform through diplomatic channels all the 5 + 2 format participants about mirror measures with specified dates that Pridnestrovie is to take if necessary.
President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky and the Head of Moldovan State Igor Dodon held a telephone conversation. It was about the transport situation occurred after the Moldovan side initiated restrictions on crossing the Moldovan-Ukrainian border for the vehicles with pridnestrovian or neutral plates and for drivers possessing driver’s licenses issued from Pridnestrovie. Within the working discussion with the Moldovan colleague Vadim Krasnoselsky emphasized that the steps undertaken by Moldova violate the Pridnestrovians’ rights.
An official addressing was forwarded today to the Republic of Moldova’s political issues representative and to international participants of the 5+2 format. According to the statement the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic State Security Council decided to take response measures for Moldovan vehicles. Thus, from January 24, 2020 begin acting restrictions on the Pridnestrovian and Ukrainian state border crossing for all types of vehicles registered in the republic of Moldova, driven by permanent Moldovan residents possessing Moldovan driver’s licenses.
The OSCE Mission office in Tiraspol hosted a meeting of expert (working) groups on rail transport and communications initiated by the Pridnestrovian side to discuss certain issues on raw materials delivery to Pridnestrovie and the export of finished products. Within the framework of the working dialogue was asserted as the emergence inadmissibility of problematic situations of this kind as the interest to provide proper transport services to the enterprises of Pridnestrovie by the State Enterprise “Railway Moldova”.
The Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting between Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and the head of the OSCE Mission Klaus Neukirch. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Stetsiuk.
The OSCE Mission office in Tiraspol hosted the meeting of political representatives from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova, Vitaly Ignatiev and Alexander Flenchea.
During the meeting, the interlocutors discussed a wide range of relevant aspects of the negotiation process agenda between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova emphasizing transport and import of goods in Pridnestrovie issues from February 1, 2020.
The Office of the OSCE Mission in Tiraspol will host the meeting of representatives on political issues from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova Vitaly Ignatiev and Alexandr Flenchea on January 14, 2020 at 12:00 PM.
During the planned meeting the Pridnestrovian side intends to continue discussions on a wide range of current issues within the dialogue between Pridnestrovie and Moldova.
The Prednistrovian President and the Prime Minister of Moldova have signed an additional Protocol giving a half year extension to the Protocol Decision “On principles of a full-fledged freight railway communication renewal through the territory of Pridnestrovie”. The document will be valid until June 30, 2020 with the mutual consent of the parties.
Today, at the Contact Center of T.G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovian State University (PSU) for Cooperation with the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation an activity plan for 2020-2021 was signed. The event was attended by Head of Rossotrudnichestvo Representation in Moldova Mikhail Davydov, Rector of the University Stepan Beril, as well as representatives of the Presidential Administration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PMR and Union of Russian Communities of Pridnestrovie.
