The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev and Doris El Doueihy, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation to the Republic of Moldova. The meeting was also attended by the ICRC representatives Deepali Gaur and Azat Doskozhaev.
Greeting the guests, Vitaly Ignatiev stressed that international cooperation in the social and humanitarian sphere is of great importance for Pridnestrovie, and in this context, he positively assessed the dynamics of bilateral cooperation.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Moldova, Tadas Valionis, paid a working visit to Tiraspol. PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky received the diplomat. The Ambassador came together with his deputy Egle Blozneliene. Pridnestrovian side was also represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev.
The office of the PMR President hosted the meeting between Pridnestrovian head of state Vadim Krasnoselsky and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic of Moldova Steven Fisher.
The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting between PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev and the European Union delegation led by Dorota Dlouchy-Suliga, the EU representative in the 5+2 negotiating process.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksandr Stetsiuk held a meeting with the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross led by Karina Lehmann. ICRC representatives Tarlan Aghayev and Azat Doskozhaev also took part in the meeting.
Opening the meeting, Alexandr Stetsiuk praised the current level of bilateral relations between Pridnestrovie and the Red Cross and welcomed the humanitarian support which the ICRC provides to refugees who had arrived in the republic.
Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev held a meeting with Thomas Mayr-Harting, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The meeting was also attended by Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Kelly Keiderling.
Vitaly Ignatiev opened the meeting by noting that international mediation, including that of the OSCE, is necessary for normalizing the dialogue between Pridnestrovie and Moldova. He expressed the hope that joint efforts will help bring the negotiation process out of stagnation and “make certain steps to meet the interests of the people”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that the Moldovan side released from custody an illegally and innocently convicted Pridnestrovian national Andrey Samoniy, who spent more than three years in detention on the territory of neighboring Moldova.
Today a round table on Interparliamentary Dialogue Towards Maintaining Peace and Stability on the Banks of the Dniester River took place on the platform of the Committee for International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation via videoconference.
The PMR foreign ministry hosted a discussion between Vitaly Ignatiev and American political scientist and expert John Kavulich.
John Kavulich is a political scientist, expert, President of US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council and Senior Research Editor of Issue Insight, an analytical portal dealing with international affairs. He has been studying the USSR and the post-Soviet space for more than 35 years.
The office of the Pridnestrovian head of state hosted a meeting between PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky and Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Kelly Keiderling. The foreign diplomat was accompanied by political advisors. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR took part in the discussion.