​TIRASPOL LEADER TELLS MOSCOW ABOUT THREATS CAUSED BY MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE

The unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR) has lately come to face a whole package of threats and challenges requiring immediate solutions, Transnistrian president Vadim Krasnoselsky stated in his meeting with the Russian President’s Special Representative on Transnistria, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin in Moscow on Tuesday.

For the main threat, Krasnoselsky mentioned Moldova’s intention to unfold border/customs control on the Ukrainian side of the PMR border namely at the Cuciurgan border-crossing station situated on the strategic Chisinau-Odessa highway.

“This will entail a whole complex of negative consequences for the Transnistrian economy, for the freedom of movement and for security in this whole region. Our position is: it is necessary to give up this destructive intention”, said Vadim Krasnoselsky.

He is convinced that efforts by Russia, as a guarantor country and a mediator to the negotiating process, should promote the organization of discussions on the issue in the 5+2 negotiating format.

The interlocutors discussed also the problem of “politically motivated criminal prosecution of Transnistria citizens in Moldova”.

“As a good-will gesture, the Transnistrian side has decided to cease litigations against 10 representatives of Moldova, including police officers, and is now expecting analogous steps from Moldova. However, Chisinau, despite its commitments taken earlier, is in fact evading dialog on this question and is ignoring Transnistria’s proposals on solving the issue”, said Vadim Krasnoselsky.

The Tiraspol leader also maintains that in order to improve the dialog atmosphere, Transnistria has made a number of practical steps towards a maximum-possible simplification of migration regime for citizens of Moldova, of the order of processing lands by Moldovan farmers in the “Dubossary Raion of the PMR”, and the functioning of Latin-script Moldova-administered schools in Transnistria.

The Transnistrian presidential press service reported that the Moscow meeting was held in a friendly atmosphere and that the constructive dialog revealed coincidence of the interlocutors’ positions on all issues discussed.

However, the press service did not mention whatever remarks by Dmitry Rogozin. And himself the Deputy Prime Minister, unlike after previous meetings, has not written anything in social networks about his conversation with the Transnistrian leader.