PRIME MINISTER PROMISES TO WORK HARD TO REINTEGRATE THE COUNTRY

On Friday, Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip took part in a rally of Transnistrian armed conflict veterans organized annually in Chisinau to commemorate the heroes and victims of that 1992 bloody tragedy.

The Premier stated to the veterans the Moldovan Government does all in its powers to reintegrate the country.

“We have achieved access for Moldovan farmers to their lands under Transnistria’s control in the Dubasari Raion. The Latin-script Moldova-administered schools in Transnistria are now functioning without problems. And upon the recent establishment of Moldo-Ukrainian control at the Cuciurgan border-crossing station, Moldova has re-established its control along the entire length of the Moldova-Ukraine border for the first time over last 26 years”, said Pavel Filip.

He promised not to repose on his laurels and to continue working in this direction until a full reintegration of the country.

Thousands of combatants today laid flowers to the Monument to the Mourning Mother at the Eternitate Military Glory Memorial in Chisinau.

Infotag’s dossier: On the night of March 1-2, 1992 unknown people opened fire at a military jeep with Transnistrian policemen from Dubossary town, who were trapped into an ambush by a false telephone call. It is not known for sure until now who staged that provocation. Naturally, various sources keep accusing both the Moldovan and the Transnistrian side.

After that night incident, the Transnistrians seized the Dubasari Raion subdivision of Moldovan police, and its policemen were delivered to Tiraspol. Subsequently, they were exchanged for Transnistrian Cossacks captured by the Moldovan side.

Already on March 2, the first combat broke out for the weaponry arsenal of the Moldovan military base deployed near the Cocieri Village. On that day, first human losses appeared from both sides. However, the bloodiest combats unfolded in Bendery city on June 19-20.

An end was put to the armed conflict on July 21, 1992 when the Agreement on the Principles of a Peaceful Settlement of the Armed Conflict in the Transnistrian Region of Moldova was signed between Chisinau and Moscow.

The Transnistria settlement negotiations are continuing until now, and the joint peacekeeping forces of Russia, Moldova and Transnistria are present on both sides of the Dniester in conformity with the 1992 Agreement.

According to Chisinau’s official data, the 1991-1992 armed conflict on the Dniester involved over 30 thousand military from the Moldovan side, of whom 386 persons were killed (including local civilians), hundreds were wounded or/and were disabled. The Transnistrian side says it lost nearly a thousand people in the armed clashes.

The date of March 2, 1992 is marked also in Transnistria – but as the day of the onset of the Republic of Moldova’s military aggression against the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. This Friday was no exception.