The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and the European Union delegation led by Dorota Dlouchy-Suliga, the EU representative in the 5+2 negotiating process.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksandr Stetsiuk held a meeting with the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross led by Karina Lehmann. ICRC representatives Tarlan Aghayev and Azat Doskozhaev also took part in the meeting.
Opening the meeting, Alexandr Stetsiuk praised the current level of bilateral relations between Pridnestrovie and the Red Cross and welcomed the humanitarian support which the ICRC provides to refugees who had arrived in the republic.
Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev held a meeting with Thomas Mayr-Harting, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The meeting was also attended by Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Kelly Keiderling.
Vitaly Ignatiev opened the meeting by noting that international mediation, including that of the OSCE, is necessary for normalizing the dialogue between Pridnestrovie and Moldova. He expressed the hope that joint efforts will help bring the negotiation process out of stagnation and “make certain steps to meet the interests of the people”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that the Moldovan side released from custody an illegally and innocently convicted Pridnestrovian national Andrey Samoniy, who spent more than three years in detention on the territory of neighboring Moldova.
Today a round table on Interparliamentary Dialogue Towards Maintaining Peace and Stability on the Banks of the Dniester River took place on the platform of the Committee for International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation via videoconference.
The PMR foreign ministry hosted a discussion between Vitaly Ignatiev and American political scientist and expert John Kavulich.
John Kavulich is a political scientist, expert, President of US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council and Senior Research Editor of Issue Insight, an analytical portal dealing with international affairs. He has been studying the USSR and the post-Soviet space for more than 35 years.
The office of the Pridnestrovian head of state hosted a meeting between PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky and Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Kelly Keiderling. The foreign diplomat was accompanied by political advisors. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR took part in the discussion.
During the working visit to Moscow, the Pridnestrovian delegation held a number of meetings in Russian state agencies with a view to enhancing bilateral, cross-departmental cooperation.
In particular, communication took place with the Ministry of Health leadership to tackle the broadening of the range and forms of cooperation, including the possibility of providing high-tech and other medical care to Pridnestrovian citizens in specialized federal institutions of Russia.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting between Vitaly Ignatiev and delegations of the Russian Foreign Ministry headed by Alexander Lukashevich, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, and Vitaly Triapitsyn, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The meeting was also attended by Alexander Andreev, JCC Co-Chairman from the Russian Federation.
In the context of the ongoing investigation into the terrorist attacks on the PMR territory, the Pridnestrovian side has informed the international mediators and observers of the negotiation process about the car bomb intended for the OSCE delegation during the visit of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Bujar Osmani to Pridnestrovie on February 14.
