10 years ago, on April 9, 2001, Presidents of Moldova and Pridnestrovie, Vladimir Voronin and Igor Smirnov, signed Joint Statement which contained a whole number of fundamentally important provisions as regards the Moldova-Pridnestrovie relations normalization, and which among other issues stated the equality of the sides in the negotiation process, intention of the sides to consider issue of joining the Union of Belarus and Russia, as well as granting Russian official-language status and stepping-up interdepartmental work.
On April 5, 2011, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the Republic of Moldova Sergey Pirozhkov gave lecture in T.G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovien State University devoted to modern tendencies of Ukraine’s foreign policy development.
Today, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vladimir Yastrebchak received OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek. Participating in the meeting held in the foreign policy department of Pridnestrovie were also the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Philip Remler, and other OSCE staff.
On April 4-5, in Vienna, in accordance with earlier reached agreements, a regular round of informal consultations of the participants of the Permanent Consultations on Political Issues in the Framework of the Pridnestrovien Settlement Negotiation Process, which includes the Republic of Moldova and the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic (the sides), the Russian Federation and Ukraine (guarantors and mediators), the OSCE (mediator), and also the USA and European Union (observers), took place. The Pridnestrovien delegation was represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Yastrebchak and Co-Chairperson of the Joint Control Commission from Pridnestrovie Oleg Belyakov.
On April 1, 2011, in the PMR’s MFA a meeting took place between Foreign Minister Vladimir Yastrebchak with Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden in the Republic of Moldova Ingrid Tersman.
In Pridnestrovie attention was drawn to an increasing number of statements on issue of the Moldova-Pridnestrovie settlement made by representatives of different states and international structures, and this concern about the future of the people residing in this region of Europe is appreciated.
