On July 9, 2020, a meeting of expert (working) groups on environmental issues from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova was held in a videoconference format.
During the meeting, relevant peer experts discussed issues related to the conservation and rational use of the Dniester aquatic biological resources. In particular, the Pridnestrovian side provided information on 2019 efforts to stock the river with commercial species of fish and suggested a regular exchange of such data.
Today, the PMR’s Supreme Council plenary meeting adopted a statement in connection with the increasing tensions in the Security Zone fuelled by the Republic of Moldova.
Welcoming the US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova Dereck Hogan, Vadim Krasnoselsky said that there have been events that require joint discussion since the previous meeting. The problematic aspect is a serious slowdown in the dynamics of the negotiation process between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova. “The negotiation process is almost stagnating. The prospects for resuming a normal dialogue are not yet clear,” the PMR’s President noted. Vadim Krasnoselsky emphasized that humanitarian and social issues are accumulating.
We paid attention to further emotional rhetoric of the Moldovan representative in the international negotiation process.
While Moldovan healthcare system is balancing on the verge of collapse and medical institutions cannot cope with the flow of sick people, the Moldovan side has resorted to tactics of inventing an external enemy image in order to refocus the public attention on the allegedly existing problems in the Security Zone, aimed at discrediting the Dniester Peacekeeping Mission.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting of the PMR's Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev with the head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Claus Neukirch. The meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the Pridnestrovian Republican Bank Vladislav Tidva and acting Head of the PMR's State Telecommunications Service Vladimir Belyaev.
The President of Pridnestrovie and the Prime Minister of Moldova signed (without organizing personal meeting) an additional protocol extending for six months the Protocol Decision “On the principles of resuming full-fledged freight rail communication through the territory of Pridnestrovie” dated March 30, 2012. Parties mutually agreed that the document will be valid until December 31, current year.
The Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry held a video format working consultation with the Republic of South Ossetia. The foreign ministers Vitaly Ignatiev and Dmitry Medoev and the heads of diplomatic missions of the two states Alan Pliev and Vitaly Yankovsky attended the consultation as well.
The Foreign Ministry held a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Ossetian people genocide dated 1918-1920. The event attended the Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the PMR Alexander Korshunov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the PMR Stanislav Kasap, Minister of State Security of the PMR Valery Gebos, Heads of Representative Offices of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Alexander Vataman and Vitaly Yankovsky, Chairman of the Armenian Community in Pridnestrovie Gegam Gevorkyan.
On June 19, 2020, a meeting of expert (working) groups on railway transport and communications from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova was held in a videoconference format.
The meeting was focused on current issues of cooperation in the field of rail transportation and long-standing problems impeding economic activity, including oil products carriage ban through the Slobodka-Kolbasna border crossing on the border between Pridnestrovie and Ukraine.
The Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev met with Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Thomas Mayr-Harting. The head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Klaus Neukirch attended the meeting as well.
Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting of Minister Vitaly Ignatiev with the Head of the Official Representative Office of the Republic of South Ossetia in Pridnestrovie Vitaly Yankovsky. Deputy Minister Alexander Stetsiuk attended the meeting as well.
On June 10, 2020, the expert (working) groups on education from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova held a video format meeting.
The Pridnestrovian side outlined a wide range of issues related to the interests of Pridnestrovians in terms of academic mobility and other pressing issues in the education field.
The Moldavian side was not ready for a substantive constructive dialogue on the issue of super legalization of the T.G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovian State University diplomas necessary for its graduates when using this document in Germany.
We took note of the dubious PR campaign of Moldova’s political representative in the form of a press conference on the results and recommendations following the WHO delegation’s visit to Pridnestrovie on May 6.
The Pridnestrovian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that the Republic of Moldova has returned to destructive, antihuman methods blocking the import to Pridnestrovie of the so needed medicines to be used within pandemic fight.
Today, took place the meeting of subgroup on banking issues in a video conference format initiated by the Pridnestrovian side with representatives of international partners’ participation. It was for the first time after six-month that the meeting of specialists representing the banking sector of Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova was arranged. The break was caused by Kishinev's continuous work avoiding on this topic.
As part of restrictive measures phased mitigation, from June 1, 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is resuming the reception of applicants for the state service Legalization of Documents provision in compliance with quarantine measures.
Applicants will be admitted on business days strictly after being appointed by telephone 0 533 7 4405; recording and consultations are to be held from 8:30 to 10:00 and from 14:00 to 15:00.
The Pridnestrovian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noticed the awkward statements of the Moldovan representative’s office on political issues as to the effective actions the Pridnestrovian side has taken to return hundreds of citizens of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic home within international transport restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev held a video call with the head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Klaus Neukirch.
As part of the conversation, took place a substantive exchange of views on the current situation in the negotiation process between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova in the light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
On the Pridnestrovian initiative and under the auspices of the OSCE Mission, a meeting of Expert (Working) Groups on Customs Cooperation was held in a video conference format involving representatives of international partners.
