DODON HOLDS NEW MEETING WITH TRANSNISTRIAN OPPOSITION…

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has again held a meeting with Transnistrian opposition representatives. It was his third meeting with Transnistrian Communist Party Chairman Oleg Horjan and his supporters over last 3 months.

Dodon wrote on his Facebook page afterwards that during their previous contact, which took place in Holercani [a picturesque locality on the right Dniester River bank, where a countryside presidential residence is situated] last October, the interlocutors had agreed that such dialog needs to be continued and to be made regular because their informal communication is mutually useful.

At the Thursday’s meeting, its participants drew up the results of the current year, discussed the achievements in resolving the problems faced by Transnistria residents, and what needs to be done in the incoming year.

President Dodon pointed out positive achievements – the opening of the Gura Bicului/Bicioc Bridge across the Dniester and the progress reached in resolving the problems of university diplomas, telecommunications, Moldovan schools in Transnistria, the farmland problem.

“I informed my guests about the decisions taken by the Moldovan Parliament last week, about the results of my visit to Moscow where I held meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, His Holiness Kirill – the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia [Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church] and Gazprom President Alexei Miller”, wrote Dodon.

Last October, Igor Dodon held 2 meetings with Transnistrian civil society representatives. Those were mainly activists of the Transnistrian Communist Party, which is in a stiff opposition to the authorities of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR). The meetings were strongly condemned by other civil society organizations and by the PMR authorities.

After those meetings, the Tiraspol administration stated they see no point in meeting with President Dodon “who often changes his position and who cannot solve anything in Moldova”.