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…AND RECOGNIZES THAT NEGOTIATIONS WITH TRANSNISTRIA ARE ADVANCING WITH PAIN
Chisinau. Speaking on the NIT television channel last Friday night, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin recognized that the negotiations with Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov are advancing with great difficulties because “his hands are in blood yet since the armed conflict on the Dniester [1992], and he may not be a peacekeeper”.
Voronin, who was born and raised in Transnistria, maintained that nothing has changed on the eastern bank over the past years. Recently, he traveled via Dubossary town to visit his mother’s grave in his native village of Corjova.
“I know every street there, and remember every tree. Nothing has changed there. Perhaps only, everything has dilapidated”, remarked the Moldovan President.
Voronin said that he would shortly have a meeting with new Russia President Dmitry Medvedev. He stressed that it was Vladimir Putin who introduced him to Medvedev. Now Voronin is going to discuss mainly the Transnistria question with the new Russian leader, “and I am sure there will be no surprises”.
