CHISINAU, OSCE MISSION CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF PROGRESS WITH WORKING GROUPS
15.05.2008
Chisinau. Lack of tangible results in the activities of the Chisinau/Tiraspol working groups on confidence-building measures (CBMs) is causing concern, agreed Moldovan Minister of Reintegration Vasile Sova and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Philip Remler at their meeting here Wednesday.
According to the Ministry of Reintegration, Vasile Sova and Philip Remler “stressed the need for imparting an extra impulse to the groups’ work in order to enhance the realization of joint projects needed by the residents of both Dniester banks”.
The initiative to create such joint expert working groups was put forward by Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin in late 2007. And on April 11, 2008 he met with Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov in Bendery city, after a 7-year-long break. Very shortly after that meeting, the joint groups held several working meetings on the problems of environment protection, railroad communication and social problems, but the meetings did not give any fruit.












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