On April 21, 2015 in accordance with the previously reached agreements the special consultations of members of the Permanent Conference on political issues in the framework of negotiations on the Pridnestrovian settlement in the format “5+2” took place in Vienna.
A meeting of Deputy Foreign Ministers of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev and Igor Shornikov with Vice-president of the Skolkovo Foundation Yury Saprykin and Skolkovo Technopark General Director Renat Batyrov was held in the Foreign Ministry.
On April 20, 2015 at the airport in Kishinev the Border Police of the Republic of Moldova detained Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Dmitry Palamarchuk in order to carry out the intensified personal inspection.
The officials of the Moldovan Border Police actually prevented the representative of the Pridnestrovian delegation from departing for Vienna to participate in special informal consultations with the delegations in the “5+2” format.
President Yevgeny Shevchuk held a meeting with representatives of the expert (working) groups from Pridnestrovie for economic issues. We remind that expert (working) groups are an integral supplementary mechanism of the negotiation format “5+2”. The task of the expert groups is the development of proposals and draft decisions on issues in their respective fields for signing at the level of representatives on political issues.
On April 19, 2015 at the airport in Kishinev Moldova's border police denied entry for a crew of the programme “Postscript” of the Russian television channel TV Tsentr. Journalists went to Pridnestrovie to shoot reportage, but upon arrival in Kishinev they were detained by competent authorities of the Republic of Moldova, and then they were expelled. We remind that journalists of TV Channels “Zvezda” and “Russia 24” had previously been denied entry.
