First Pridnestrovian TV Channel, Alexander Lagutin: Moldovan authorities rejected the proposal of Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky to conclude an agreement with guarantees of peace and security for the region. Such a document was to be signed by all participants of the 5+2 negotiating format. How do you assess such a step of official Chisinau, and can we expect new provocations in Pridnestrovie as a result?
A press conference was held in the international multimedia press center of the Russia Today news agency with Vitaly Ignatiev, Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister, and Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Provisional Commission of the Federation Council on Information Policy and Media Relations. The event was timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester.
PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev is on a working visit to Moscow. As part of the visit, the Foreign Minister attended a round table on Russia’s Participation in the Peacekeeping Operation in Pridnestrovie: 30 Years of Peace and Stability in the Region, organized on the platform of the Federation Council. Representatives of the Federation Council Committees on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security, the State Duma, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Russian Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministries, and the expert community were among those invited.
The Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister gave an exclusive interview about the negotiation process, association with the EU and the supply of products and medications to the republic.
Exclusive interview: Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev answers questions from Sputnik Moldova.
– What is your assessment of the status of the negotiation process with Chisinau?
After the working meeting, PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian MFA Vitaly Tryapitsyn answered questions from journalists.
The media representatives were interested in the prospects for the negotiation process between Pridnestrovie and Moldova in the light of Moldova’s application for EU membership. Vitaly Tryapitsyn replied that the negotiation process is currently experiencing difficult times, the 5+2 format is ‘on pause’ for objective reasons, influenced by the regional situation.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting of Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandr Stetsiuk with representatives of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Catrin Gosby, Marianna Pateraki and Tania Marcello.
The DRC delegation came to Pridnestrovie on an informational visit to identify the humanitarian needs of the Ukrainian refugees, as well as to determine the support that the organization can provide.
A delegation of the Russian MFA, headed by Ambassador-at-Large Vitaly Tryapitsyn, arrived in Pridnestrovie. The Russian diplomats visited the Consular Field Service of the Russian Embassy in Tiraspol. Then the delegation went to a meeting with Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky.
Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky met with Russian diplomats at the site of the Pridnestrovian presidential administration. The Russian MFA’s delegation was headed by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian MFA Vitaly Tryapitsyn. He was accompanied by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Moldova Oleg Vasnetsov, Co-Chairman of the Joint Control Commission from the Russian Federation Alexander Andreev and assistant of Vitaly Tryapitsyn Arif Gadzhiev. Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev took part in the working discussion.
The PMR President’s office hosted a meeting between Head of the Pridnestrovian State Vadim Krasnoselsky and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova Oleg Vasnetsov. PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev took part in the discussion.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting between Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and Thomas Mayr-Harting, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The meeting was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Moldova Tomasz Kobzdej, Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Claus Neukirch and OSCE CiO Coordinator for the Pridnestrovian Settlement Marek Calka.
The Foreign Minister stated this in his presentation at the ceremonial meeting of the Foreign Ministry’s extended collegium dedicated to the Ministry’s 30th anniversary.
Vitaly Ignatiev said that for three decades of “tempering and developing together with the republic” in extreme conditions Pridnestrovian diplomacy has been consistently trying to defend the interests of the country on the world stage, paving the way to the main goal of the PMR’s broad international recognition.
Today the Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry celebrated its 30th anniversary. On this occasion a ceremonial meeting of the extended reporting board of the Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry took place in the small hall of the Republic Palace. PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky, Chairman of the PMR Supreme Council Alexander Korshunov, Chairman of the PMR Government Alexander Rozenberg, heads of executive and judicial authorities, acting and former employees of the PMR MFA, and representatives of public organizations attended the event as well.
The Foreign Ministry held a working meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), headed by delegate Maria Arranz Arranz. From the Pridnestrovian side, the meeting was attended by experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Protection and Labor Alexander Khonitsky, Angela Diachenko and Natalia Ovcharenko.
The interlocutors continued the discussion of the multifaceted assistance provided to people with disabilities in Pridnestrovie.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting between Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic of Moldova Steven Fisher.
The discussion was focused on the issues related to the current situation in the field of regional security. In this context, Vitaly Ignatiev expressed particular concern about the strengthened militarization processes in Moldova, including the possible supply of lethal weapons to the neighboring state.
The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between PMR Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandr Stetsiuk and Head of the Embassy Office of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Republic of Moldova Floris van Eijk. Researchers from the Clingedael Institute, Bob Deen and Wouter Zweers, also participated in the dialogue.
The communication focused on a wide range of issues related to the negotiation process and the prospects for settling relations between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova.
The Foreign Ministry held a working meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation represented by Samuel Marc Fensterheim and Maria Arranz Arranz. From the Pridnestrovian side the meeting was attended by heads of relevant departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry Ministry of Social Protection and Labor and the Ministry of Health Alexander Khonitsky, Natalia Ovcharenko and Angela Diachenko.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev received members of the International Committee of the Red Cross. During the dialogue, Head of the ICRC Delegation Roman Machover informed that he was completing his mission and introduced Doris El Doueihi as his successor.
The meeting was held as part of the ICRC Delegation’s working visit the purpose of which was to proceed with elaborating certain aspects of assistance to Ukrainian refugees and their host families in Pridnestrovie.
A memorial event commemorating 30 years of the Bendery tragedy took place on June 19, the Day of Memory and Sorrow, at the monument to soldiers-internationalists near Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast.
More than 30 soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of Bendery, the militia, fighters of the Territorial Rescue Squad and Cossacks, who in 1990-1992 defended Pridnestrovie from the aggression of the Republic of Moldova, participated in the event.
Today, a meeting of Pridnestrovian and Moldovan experts took place via videoconference to address pressing problematic issues that arise during the import of medicines. Representatives of mediators and observers in the negotiation process, as well as a delegation of the World Health Organization attended the discussion.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting between Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Moldova Kęstutis Kudzmanas. Emilija Punjute-Galoa, researcher at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, also joined the discussion.
The dialogue focused on a wide range of issues related to the history and current state of relations between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova.
