On December 22, 2009, a meeting was held in the PMR’s MFA between the leadership of the Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry and the OSCE official delegation headed by Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Mr. Charalampos Christopoulos.
On December 17, 2009, Deputy Prime Minister of the RM Victor Osipov put forward an initiative to suspend temporarily the entry ban for Pridnestrovian officials to the EU countries.