Economics

RUSSIAN DEPUTY PREMIER APPOINTED AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR TRADE RELATIONS WITH MOLDOVA

13 july, 2018

Deputy Prime Minister of Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak was appointed as Russian President's Special Representative for Trade and Economic Relations with Moldova. According to the Russian media, a corresponding order was published at a portal with legal information on Thursday.

The very same order declares as invalid the presidential orders dated March 21 and August 2, 2012 "On Russian President's Special Representative on Transnistria".

As Infotag has already reported, in the previous Russian Government Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was Co-Chairman of the Moldova-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation and Russian President's Special Representative on Transnistria. In July 2017, the Moldovan Government prohibited him to come for participating in the ceremony of marking the 25th anniversary of the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester River, after which declared Rogozin persona non grata in Moldova. Long before that, just as after that, commission sittings have not been held, while Rogozin never came to Transnistria anymore. The Moldovan Government expected the appointment of new Co-Chairman of the commission from Russia, but Vladimir Putin appointed a Special Representative and the order says nothing about the Moldova-Russia intergovernmental commission.

Dmitry Kozak is author of the well-known Memorandum for Transnistria Settlement, proposed in November 2003 by President Vladimir Putin. The document implied the resolving of the Transnistrian problem by means of federalizing Moldova. At the last minute, the then President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin refused to sign the document and the visit of Putin to Chisinau was cancelled,

Back then, Kozak said that the actions of Moldovan president are "beyond the good and the evil". Experts regard his new appointment as a sign of Russia's policy toughening in relation to Moldova.

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