Today, the reporting panel meeting to review the Foreign Ministry’s work in 2024 took place. The event was attended by President Vadim Krasnoselsky, the leadership of the Supreme Council and Government, heads of ministries and agencies of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, Akhsar Dzhioev, representatives of the Russian Federation’s Embassy, and other participants.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the meeting between Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and Thomas Lenk, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. Kelly Keiderling, Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, also attended the meeting.
Today, at the initiative of the South Ossetian side, a phone conversation took place between Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev and head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Djioev.
Vitaly Ignatiev informed his counterpart about the consequences of the energy crisis in Pridnestrovie for the population of the republic, the current situation, and possible options for ensuring long-term natural gas supplies.
Today, the PMR Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vitaly Ignatiev, and the Head of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Abkhazia, Sergey Shamba, held a mutually agreed phone conversation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter to the Moldovan side proposing to arrange a discussion of gas and energy experts as a matter of urgency, specifically on January 29 via video conference.
Pridnestrovie welcomes the EU’s intention to provide an emergency financial grant to offer short-term support to the republic amid the humanitarian and energy crisis.
Due to the lack of precise information regarding the parameters of this support, as well as conflicting interpretations by certain officials of the Republic of Moldova that contradict the content of a previously received letter from Moldova’s political representative, the Pridnestrovian side has put forward a counter-initiative to hold an expert meeting as soon as possible.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid attention to the destructive comments made by the Moldovan Prime Minister’s spokesperson regarding the energy crisis provoked by Moldova.
Spinning an informational web of false statements instead of genuinely working to implement the existing functional mechanism for gas supplies to Pridnestrovie is extremely cynical.
As ordered by the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes the text of the Head of State’s address to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN Security Council.
The Foreign Ministry notes that the President has signed and sent several addresses to international partners today, emphasizing the urgent need for the prompt supply of natural gas to Pridnestrovie and the importance of preventing a fuel and energy crisis and a humanitarian catastrophe in the country.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs draws attention to the ongoing campaign by Moldovan officials aimed at public misleading with regard to the worsening energy and humanitarian crisis in Pridnestrovie.
Showing extreme cynicism and lacking hesitation, Moldovan representatives stalls and keeps appearance of invincible bureaucratic obstacles to addressing current issues. They share contradictory statements and publicly tie the task of saving nearly half a million Pridnestrovians with deliberately unfeasible and unreasonable demands.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting between PMR Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Moldova Oleg Ozerov during his working visit to Pridnestrovie, as part of an extensive program.
During the dialogue, the diplomats aligned their positions on the main issues of the negotiation process and the current situation in Pridnestrovie, with an emphasis on exchanging opinions and assessments on ways to address the fuel and energy crisis.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that today at 10:00 experts from Pridnestrovie and Moldova held a meeting on energy issues at the OSCE Mission office in Bendery.
This fact completely invalidates the irresponsible statements and empty arguments of O. Serebrian, who deliberately avoided the meeting of political representatives in Bendery under a fabricated pretext.
The aggressive remarks made by the Moldovan official in recent days indicate his intent to disrupt the normal interaction between the political representatives of the parties.
The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that throughout the current week, under the mediation of the OSCE Mission, efforts were made to facilitate the meeting of political representatives of the sides to discuss measures for overcoming the energy crisis and providing humanitarian support.
Under various pretexts, the political representative of the Republic of Moldova first waived the traditional in-person meeting format, and then ultimately disrupted the session by rejecting the OSCE Mission’s written proposal to hold it at the Bendery office.
The PMR Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes with concern the increasing frequency of speculative statements by Moldova’s political representative on the energy crisis. The repetitive nature of these declarations indicates an attempt to manipulate public opinion through the dissemination of false information.
In recent days, there has been widespread dissemination of claims about the Moldovan government’s alleged “readiness” to assist its citizens in Pridnestrovie, as well as supposed proposals to establish a “dialogue mechanism”, and so on.
Due to the state of emergency in the economy, Pridnestrovie is engaged in ongoing dialogue with the parties involved and is making every possible effort to maintain natural gas supplies at previous volumes.
Regarding the statements of RM Political Representative Oleg Serebrian posted in Moldovan media allegedly claiming lacking request of Pridnestrovie for assistance, we deem it important to emphasize as follows.
The long-standing international negotiation process conceptually represents a string of direct and systematic addresses from Pridnestrovie to Moldova, urging it to cease the application of discriminatory and restrictive measures, to abandon socio-economic pressure, and to stop violations of the rights and freedoms of the Pridnestrovians.
The Foreign Ministry hosted a meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev with the Head of South Ossetian Official Mission to Pridnestrovie Vitaly Yankovsky.
The diplomats summarized the results of the expiring year. After sharing views on the full range of implemented activities, they underlined the high bilateral cooperation dynamics and active all-level engagement, both officially and publicly.
Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of Alexander Khonitsky, Head of Department for Non-CIS Countries and International Organizations, and Andrey Lozinsky, Head of the Department for CIS Affairs and Negotiation Processes, with Kristin Jenssen, UN Peace and Development Advisor, and Laure Storne, UN Assistant on Inclusion of Vulnerable Population Groups.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shares a memorandum handed over to the Political Representative of the Pridnestrovian Republic, O. Serebrian, as well as to mediators and observers in the negotiation process during a meeting at the OSCE Mission Office in Bendery on November 19 of this year.
Summary of Moldova’s Violations of Pridnestrovian Rights under International Law
Today, Expert (Working) Groups on Transport and Road Infrastructure Development held an online meeting. It continued the discussion initiated by Pridnestrovie during the meeting of Political Representatives on 19 November 2024.
On November 26, 2024, Expert (Working) Groups on Environmental Issues from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova held a video conference.
Pridnestrovie initiated discussion of issues related to the implementation of the Protocol on Cooperation between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova in Fishery Management and Rational Use of Dniester Aquatic Biological Resources dated June 15, 2016.
