Today PMR’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Yastrebchak received the delegation from Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, headed by Internal Minister, Police Major General Leonid Dzapshba.
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One of the main obstacles to the resumption of official work in 5+2 format is the absence of any practical progress in solving the problems, existing in the relations between Tiraspol and Kishinev.
On June 22, 2011, on the Day of Memory and Sorrow, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic Vladimir Yastrebchak participated in the flower-laying to the Eternal Flame at a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden in Moscow, having paid the tribute to the memory of those who had fallen in the Great Patriotic War.
As it is known, on June 21, 2011, Moscow will host the next round of informal consultations of the participants of the Permanent Consultations on Political Issues in the Framework of the Pridnestrovien Settlement Negotiation Process, more known as a 5+2 format, where the “five” is the founders of the Permanent Consultations… (the conflicting sides, guarantors and co-mediators), and “plus two” – observers from the European Union and the USA.
In Pridnestrovie attention was drawn to the behaviour of a number of officials of the Republic of Moldova after the reception which was held in the Russian Embassy in the RM on June 10, 2011, and also to their subsequent statements in mass media.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic paid attention to certain statements of our colleagues from Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, particularly those, made by Mr. Yuriy Leanka during the interview to one of the Romanian periodicals.
PMR’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Pridnestrovien Union of Industrialists, Agrarians and Entrepreneurs (SPAPP) are intended to unite their efforts in order to protect and to promote economic interests of the republic on the foreign arena.
On June 1, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vladimir Yastrebchak arrived in Sukhumi as a member of the official delegation of Pridnestrovie led by President Igor Smirnov to participate in the mourning farewell ceremony for President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PMR sent a message of condolence to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia on the passing of President of the Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh.
On May 24, 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PMR hosted the meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister of the foreign policy institution of the Republic Sergey Simonenko and Press-Secretary of the Munich Security Conference Oliver Rolofs.
Delegation of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic, which included Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Malyarchuk and Managing Director of the Regional Public Organization “Pridnestrovien Society of Friendship with Cuba” Alexander Kolomenchuk, on the invitation of the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Ukraine Félix León Carballo paid a friendly visit to the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Ukraine.
Today, on May 16, 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation hosted the working meeting of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pridnestrovie V.V. Yastrebchak and Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs S. N. Gubarev.
On May 12, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic Vladimir Yastrebchak received Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Germany in the Republic of Moldova Berthold Johannes.
Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the meeting of Deputies Foreign Minister Sergey Simonenko, Alexander Malyarchuk and Vitaly Ignatiev with the delegation of the Council of Europe.
On April 28-29, on the invitation of the head of Ternopol regional public administration, delegation of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic took part in the Sixth International Investment Forum which was held in Ternopol (Ukraine).
On April 29, 2011, Vladimir Yastrebchak, on the instructions of PMR’s President Igor Smirnov, participated in the session of the Supreme Soviet Commission on Foreign Policy and International Relations.
On April 28, President of the PMR Igor Smirnov held a press-conference with focus on the situation in the Moldova-Pridnestrovie relations normalisation, and also on the results of his visits to Moscow and Kiev.