TIRASPOL NEGOTIATES SITUATION CONTROLLABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY WITH MOSCOW

The development of the Moldova-Transnistria negotiation process, its perspectives in 2018 in what concerns the practical realization of the Vienna Protocol and possibilities of resolving other problematic questions were discussed in Moscow on Friday between Transnistria president Vadim Krasnoselsky and Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs – State Secretary Grigory Karasin.

According to the Transnistrian president’s website, the meeting was held in the form of a “working lunch” in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was attended also by President Putin’s Special Envoy at the Transnistria negotiations, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Sergey Gubarev and by Vitaly Tryapitsyn, Deputy Director of the Second CIS Department at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Transnistrian minister of foreign affairs Vitaly Ignatiev and his deputy Ruslan Slobodeniuc.

The interlocutors spoke out for an efficient work of the international 5+2 negotiating format, and negotiated “an algorithm of joint actions aimed at securing the controllability and predictability of the situation and at the minimization of negative consequences”.

Vadim Krasnoselsky reaffirmed the Transnistrian republic’s principal stance concerning the need to urgently work out a mechanism of guarantees of the implementation of decisions achieved at negotiations. He stressed that for Transnistria, the settlement of differences in the socio-economic and humanitarian spheres is remaining a priority in the interaction with the Moldovan side.

The presidential website wrote also that the interlocutors discussed in detail potential possibilities to brisk up Transnistria’s interaction with Russia at all levels. In particular, they touched on questions of a simpler receiving of the Russian citizenship by Transnistria residents and of broadening of the Russia-Transnistria inter-ministerial cooperation.

The official website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not reported anything about the meeting.