One of the main obstacles to the resumption of official work in 5+2 format is the absence of any practical progress in solving the problems, existing in the relations between Tiraspol and Kishinev.
On June 22, 2011, on the Day of Memory and Sorrow, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic Vladimir Yastrebchak participated in the flower-laying to the Eternal Flame at a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden in Moscow, having paid the tribute to the memory of those who had fallen in the Great Patriotic War.
As it is known, on June 21, 2011, Moscow will host the next round of informal consultations of the participants of the Permanent Consultations on Political Issues in the Framework of the Pridnestrovien Settlement Negotiation Process, more known as a 5+2 format, where the “five” is the founders of the Permanent Consultations… (the conflicting sides, guarantors and co-mediators), and “plus two” – observers from the European Union and the USA.
In Pridnestrovie attention was drawn to the behaviour of a number of officials of the Republic of Moldova after the reception which was held in the Russian Embassy in the RM on June 10, 2011, and also to their subsequent statements in mass media.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic paid attention to certain statements of our colleagues from Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, particularly those, made by Mr. Yuriy Leanka during the interview to one of the Romanian periodicals.
PMR’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Pridnestrovien Union of Industrialists, Agrarians and Entrepreneurs (SPAPP) are intended to unite their efforts in order to protect and to promote economic interests of the republic on the foreign arena.
On June 1, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vladimir Yastrebchak arrived in Sukhumi as a member of the official delegation of Pridnestrovie led by President Igor Smirnov to participate in the mourning farewell ceremony for President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh.
