On October 13, 2011, the Diplomatic Academy of Russia's MFA hosted the Round table dedicated to foreign policy peculiarities of the situation around Moldova and Pridnestrovie.
Sergey Zhiltsov, Doctor of Political Science, head of the CIS Center of the Institute of Topical International Problems of Diplomatic Academy of Russia's MFA was a moderator of this event.
Participating in the work of expert-diplomatic forum were representatives of Diplomatic Academy of Russia's MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic, Academy of Science of the Republic of Moldova, Russian Institute of Strategic Research (RISI), Strategic Culture Foundation of Russia, as well as independent expert organizations.
Opening the discussion, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vladimir Yastrebchak threw light on the current situation of the Moldova-Pridnestrovie settlement process, and dwelt on geopolitical aspects affecting the situation in this region of Europe. In this connection, he drew attention to active foreign policy actions of Romania which, in the words of the Pridnestrovien diplomat, had assumed the functions of international “lawyer” of the Republic of Moldova in Euro-Atlantic structures.
In the course of his speech, the head of the Pridnestrovien diplomacy cited concrete examples of the complicated specificity of relations with representatives of Moldova, in particular, in line of field-specific cooperation between law-enforcement structures of the two republics.
During the discussion, Vladimir Yastrebchak laid special emphasis on the fact that Pridnestrovie's independence is an absolute priority of the Pridnestrovien foreign policy fixed by the will of people at the referendum of September 17, 2006.
Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev who participated in the forum paid experts' attention to the complex problematic of regional security stressing that any models and structures within settlement which take no account of the existing reality and the will of half a million Pridnestrovien citizens are counter-productive and bear powerful charge of destabilization of the whole South-Eastern Europe.
In general, scientific and research discussion at the forum of the Diplomatic Academy of Russia's MFA was of interested dynamic character and revealed high demand for Moldo-Pridnestrovien problematic in social and scientific discourse of the Russian Federation.
Leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic and representatives of the Diplomatic Academy of Russia's MFA agreed to further develop positive experience of cooperation in scientific and expert sphere.
