Following the visit that took place on 5-6 April to Pridnestrovie and Moldova the delegation of mediators and observers in the “Permanent Conference ...” in the 5+2 format has adopted a communiqué.
The brief statement posted on the official website of the OSCE reads that the mediators and observers were encouraged by the commitment shown by Kishinev and Tiraspol to reinvigorate the dialogue.
The meeting of the head of state with representatives and members of the “Permanent Conference ...” from the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the OSCE, the United States and the European Union was held in Tiraspol - the capital of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The delegation was headed by Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Cord Hinrich Meier-Klodt.
The interview with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev under the title “Defending the interests of the state” was published in the new issue of the newspaper “Trudovoi Tiraspol” (Labor Tiraspol). Here is the full text of the interview.
A webinar on “American ideology and the US pretension to global dominance” was held in the conference hall of the T.G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovian State University today. It was organized by the Dniester-Prut Center of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS). Reports were given to students and teachers by Russian philosopher and publicist Aleksandr Dugin, Senior Research Scientist of the RISS Section for the US and Latin America Sergei Mikhailov.
As part of the dialogue held by Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Dmitry Palamarchuk with UNICEF Deputy Representative in Moldova Margarita Tileva the sides discussed topical issues of social protection of children without parental custody. Taking part in the meeting was also First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the PMR Oleg Fedotov.
Today, at the initiative of the Pridnestrovian side Acting Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Karen Mirzoyan.
This year’s first meeting of Pridnestrovie and Moldova’s expert (working) groups on ecology was held in the office of the OSCE Mission in Kishinev on March 31, 2016. The meeting was devoted to the harmonization of draft document on inter-agency cooperation between Pridnestrovie and Moldova’s services conducting hydrometeorological observation and environmental monitoring.
The meeting of the expert (working) groups on railway communication was held at the initiative of the Pridnestrovian side in the Kishinev office of the OSCE Mission on March 30, 2016.
A proposal to organize working expert consultations was voiced by Vitaly Ignatiev on March 3, 2016 at the meeting with representative on political issues from Moldova Gheorghe Balan.
President Yevgeny Shevchuk met with the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Council of the ANO “Eurasian integration”. Alexei Zhuravlev informed the president on the progress of construction work on a number of building sites that are held on the territory of Pridnestrovie by the Russian non-governmental organization.
