Today, Minister Vitaly Ignatiev met with a large delegation of the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the Foreign Ministry.
The Foundation, established in Germany in 1987, implements and supports projects in the fields of civil society development, human rights and international dialogue.
Today, the Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandr Stetsiuk and the U.S. Embassy delegation in Moldova, comprising political advisers Mark Motyleski and Andrew Freeman.
The discussion focused on the current situation in the negotiation process. The PMR Deputy Foreign Minister stated that the Moldovan side continues to evade constructive dialogue, at the same time increasing the complex of pressure measures on Pridnestrovie.
Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting of Minister Vitaly Ignatiev with Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Abkhazia in Pridnestrovie Alexander Vataman and Head of the Official Representative Office of the Republic of South Ossetia in Pridnestrovie Vitaly Yankovsky.
Welcoming the guests, the PMR Foreign Minister expressed condolence and support to the Abkhazian people on the anniversary of the Georgian invasion of Abkhazia on 14 August 1992.
The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting of Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev with Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Thomas Mayr-Harting. Kelly Keiderling, Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, also attended the meeting.
Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and the EUBAM delegation led by Head of Mission Slawomir Pichor.
In the course of the meeting interlocutors thoroughly exchanged views on the current situation in the fields of security, trade in goods and transport logistics.
A meeting of experts (working groups) on health issues took place today at the OSCE Mission’s office in Tiraspol.
The main topic of the meeting was the situation with the Moldovan side preventing the service of X-ray equipment in the Pridnestrovian medical institutions.
For two months, Moldova has been blocking the transit of X-ray equipment for a computer tomograph at the Republican Hospital for the Disabled of the Great Patriotic War, and has been making unacceptable political demands.
The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev and Doris El Doueihy, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation to the Republic of Moldova. The meeting was also attended by the ICRC representatives Deepali Gaur and Azat Doskozhaev.
Greeting the guests, Vitaly Ignatiev stressed that international cooperation in the social and humanitarian sphere is of great importance for Pridnestrovie, and in this context, he positively assessed the dynamics of bilateral cooperation.
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”.
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.
At the Pridnestrovian side’s initiative, an on-line meeting of expert (working) groups on transport and road infrastructure development was held today.
The key issue on the agenda of the meeting was the functioning of the Vehicle Registration Offices in Tiraspol and Rybnitsa.
In this context, the Pridnestrovian side highlighted a concrete workable initiative that can help restore the full functionality of the mechanism in the coming months.
Vitaly Ignatiev and Oleg Serebrian held a meeting in the OSCE Mission office in Tiraspol in the presence of representatives of the mediators and observers.
The key focus of the meeting was on the amendments to the Criminal Code adopted by the Moldovan Parliament, which introduce penalties under such articles as “separatism”, “conspiracy against Moldova” and others.
PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev met with Floris van Eijk, Chargé d’Affaires of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic of Moldova, at the PMR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The OSCE Mission’s office in Tiraspol hosted a meeting of healthcare experts with representatives of the mediators and observers in the negotiation process.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting between Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and Head of the Official Representation of the Republic of South Ossetia to the PMR Vitaly Yankovsky.
The interlocutors discussed current issues of cooperation between the two countries and summed up the results of work in the past year. In addition, they exchanged views on plans for cooperation in the near future, including the prospects for implementing joint projects in social and humanitarian and other areas in 2023.
On October 5, the Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting with Celestine Greenwood, a British lawyer who had been invited by the OSCE Mission to conduct international expertise on issues related to protecting children’s rights, including adoption, in Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Social Protection and Labor, and the Ministry of Justice, who take part in meetings of expert (working) groups on social protection, humanitarian aid, and legal and documentation support for citizens.
On September 5, an online-meeting of the political representatives from Pridnestrovie and Moldova, Vitaly Ignatiev and Oleg Serebrian, with the participation of expert (working) groups on health issues took place.
The meeting focused on the issue of importing medicines to Pridnestrovie. Vitaly Ignatiev reminded of the mechanism developed by the relevant experts of the sides to unblock the import of medicines included in the Pridnestrovian list of vital and socially important medicines into the PMR.
