Transnistria and Gagauzia

​NEGOTIATIONS ON TRANSNISTRIA’S SPECIAL STATUS WITHIN MOLDOVA SHOULD BE STARTED – MOLDOVAN AUTHORITIES

02 august, 2016

The official Chisinau maintains that it is necessary to start discussion of the issue about the status of the Transnistrian region as part of Moldova, announced Speaker of the Parliament Adrian Candu and Prime Minister Pavel Filip at the Monday’s joint press conference.

“It is obvious that within the next six months, we will not be able to start discussing this issue [with the Transnistrian administration]. This is mainly connected to presidential elections Tiraspol is preparing for. At least we have time to get ready for these talks, to develop an action plan, a draft law on of region’s status. There is openness of external partners, who support our aspiration to settle this conflict by means of providing to Transnistria of a special status within the Moldova’s territorial integrity, in condition of obeying its sovereignty and unitary character of the State”, Candu said.

Answering to the question about the law, adopted by the Moldovan Parliament in July 2005, which clearly stipulates principles of regulating the Transnistrian conflict, the Speaker said that the law may be obeyed by both sides.

“The most important is to start the discussion and move in correct direction. I have to agree that the Transnistrian settlement was not a priority for the two governments in the last time. Now this issue is a national priority. We have to find a solution, as the 2005 law exists, but is not working, it is a dead law”, Candu said.

Earlier, representatives of the Transnistrian administration repeatedly pointed at the fact that the Moldovan parliament adopted the 2005 law without discussing it with Tiraspol. The law clearly stipulates the principles of the Transnistrian settlement on the basis of which the Transnistrian region’s status should be developed. However, the PMR administration regards these principles as unacceptable. According to it, without canceling of this law, the Transnistrian conflict settlement is impossible.

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