​JCC ORDINARY MEETING UPSET AGAIN

The Thursday’s ordinary meeting of the Joint Control Commission [JCC, a supervisory body for the Joint Peacekeeping Forces] was upset again. The parties continued accusing each other of the reluctance to consider the work agenda.

Chisinau keeps insisting on including into the agenda the question of the freedom of movement for people and cargoes in the Transnistria Security Zone. The Moldovan delegation to JCC demands to analyze situation near the village of Dorotcaia, where a part of private lands belonging to Moldovan farmers and a part of the village road were ploughed up by the Transnistrian side yet in June. Tiraspol representatives say that was the technical strengthening of Transnistrian paramilitary posts near the village. But those works have led to complications in the movement of people and motor vehicles, and often even to blockage of traffic.

However, the Transnistrian side refuses to include this and some other questions into the agenda, claiming that these problems fall out of the Joint Control Commission’s scope of competence.

In their turn, Tiraspol representatives accuse Chisinau of unlawful initiating of criminal proceedings against a whole number of Transnistrian officials.

The JCC activities have been blocked since last May. With all this, the delegations convene in Bendery city [situated on the western Dniester bank but under Transnistria authorities’ control] every Thursday, but cannot agree even upon the agenda.