​ PRESIDENT DODON DECORATES JCC MEMBERS AND OSCE DIPLOMATS FOR MAINTAINING PEACE IN TRANSNISTRIA SECURITY ZONE

On Wednesday, Moldovan President Igor Dodon signed “The Decree on Decorating the Participants of the Joint Peacekeeper operation on the Dniester from the Republic of Moldova and from the OSCE Mission to Moldova for their Special Contribution to the Cause of Maintaining Peace and Stability in the Security Zone”.

The country’s supreme state award – Ordinul Republicii [Order of the Republic] – has been given to the Head of the Moldovan delegation to the Joint Control Commission [JCC, a supervisory body for the Joint Peacekeeping Forces], General Ion Solonenco, who has been working in the Commission since its first day – July 27, 1992.

Ordinul de Onoare [Order of Honor] has been given to Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Bayandin of Belarus, who was a Military Adviser to the OSCE Mission to Moldova in 2004-2007; to Moldova’s first JCC Co-Chairman since 1992 Nicolae Chirtoaca; to JCC Military Consultant since 2006 Colonel Sergiu Gutu; to Ian Nadolski (Poland), the Military Representative of the OSCE Mission to Moldova in 2003-2006.

Gloria Muncii [Labor Glory] Order has been awarded to JCC members in various periods namely to Colonel Aurel Fondos, Colonel Victor Macrinschi and JCC Co-Chairman in 1995-2002 Gheorghe Roman.

President Dodon has put forward his proposals and sent over for agreement to corresponding official structures to Moscow and Kiev for decorating peacekeepers from Russia and Ukraine. The decoration ceremonies will be held later, after the agreements, in accordance with international procedures.

Transnistrian president Vadim Krasnoselsky has awarded the specially minted medal, “25 Years of the Peacekeeper Operation in Transnistria”, to several hundred peacekeepers (from the rank and file to a general), JCC members, Interior officers, operation veterans and various-level officials such as e.g. Transnistrian supreme soviet speaker Alexander Shcherba, deputy speaker Galina Antiufeyeva, Transnistria’s former foreign minister Valery Litcai, ex-president of Transnistria Igor Smirnov, ex-speaker Grigory Maracuta, ex-minister of defense Stanislav Hajeyev.