Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the meeting between Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for International Cooperation, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the UK to the Republic of Moldova Philip David Batson. The Ambassador was accompanied by Desk Officer for Moldova of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Great Britain Stephanie E. Illingworth.
Yesterday, Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for International Cooperation, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski gave a comment to the Russian newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” on the consequences of the economic blockade and the current situation in Pridnestrovie. Below is the full text of the comment.
Today, Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for International Cooperation, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski sent Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Vyacheslav Chirikba a congratulatory message on the 22nd anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and the Republic of Abkhazia.
Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for International cooperation, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski noted that the principal feature of the Moldo-Pridnestrovian conflict is that “that the inter-ethnic or inter-religious incompatibility only cannot be defined as the basic prerequisites, which led to the armed confrontation”.
The meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev and Deputy Head of the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic of Moldova Neil Martin took place in the Foreign Ministry of Pridnestrovie today.
Today, the MFA of the PMR opened the tenth traditional Christmas “KamArt Winter vernissage”. Taking part in the event were Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Igor Shornikov, Head of the State Service for Culture of the PMR Maria Kyrmyz, Vice President of the International Association of Culture and Art Workers (MARKIS) Yury Salko, Executive Secretary of the MARKIS Nikolay Dymchenko, representatives of the creative community of Pridnestrovie.
The opening ceremony of an exhibition of the works by the participants and winners of the joint project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Service for Culture of the PMR – the photo contest “On the banks of the free Dniester” was held in the Palace of the Republic in Tiraspol today.
Today, on December 24, 2014 the President of Pridnestrovie and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova distantly, by fax, signed an Additional protocol to the Protocol decision “On principles of Resumption of a Full-Scale Freight Railway Communication through the Territory of Pridnestrovie ” of March 30, 2012.
Commenting on a journalist's question about the current state of the negotiation process in the “5+2” format, Nina Shtanski noted that, despite the serious degradation of relations between Pridnestrovie and Moldova in 2014, in general, since the resumption of negotiations in 2012, very tangible for social and economic interaction and people’s well-being results have been achieved.
Today the MFA of the PMR hosted a meeting between the Head of the Dniester-Prut Centre of the RISS and the representatives of the ministries and institutions of Pridnestrovie.
Today, the Foreign Ministry of the South Ossetia sent to the MFA of the PMR a congratulatory address on the occasion of Constitution Day of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
Two incidents took place on December 19, 2014 in Kishinev, they were directed against the diplomatic employees of Pridnestrovie. The employees of the Foreign Ministry on the instructions of the PMR’s Foreign Ministry were sent by official cars to Kishinev.
Today the PMR’s MFA hosted a meeting between Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for International Cooperation, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the FRG to the RM Ulrike Knotz.
Over the past few months the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PMR has repeatedly informed the public about many obstacles in the field of freedom of movement for the inhabitants of Pridnestrovie, including officials, while crossing the state border of the Republic of Moldova in the airport of Kishinev.
The seminar “Prospects of the comprehensive development of Russia’s foreign policy in the post-Soviet space” is held in Moscow today. The event was organized by the Analytical Centre of MGIMO (University) of the MFA of Russia with support of the Centre for post-Soviet studies and the Centre for Caucasus Studies of MGIMO. At the invitation of the Russian side the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is represented at the event by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev.
The interview of the Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for International Cooperation, Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski to the crew of the largest South Korean broadcasting company (Korean Broadcasting System) took place in the MFA of the PMR today.
Asked about the prospects for the legal recognition of Pridnestrovie, Nina Shtanski reminded that peoples’ right to self-determination was enshrined in a number of fundamental international documents.
