TRANSNISTRIA’S PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHISINAU

Transnistria president Vadim Krasnoselsky and minister of foreign affairs Vitaly Ignatiev met on Wednesday and discussed the current progress of negotiations with the official Chisinau.

Vitaly Ignatiev, Transnistria’s chief negotiator with Chisinau, said that Tiraspol has fulfilled all the agreed-on conditions on providing access for Moldovan farmers to their farmlands situated in the Transnistria-controlled territories of the Dubasari Raion.

“The Moldovan farmers have embarked on field works on the 5,300 hectares that have appropriate permissions from the Dubasari Raion administration. The question of remaining land plots is being negotiated by the sides”, said Ignatiev.

The minister remarked that last few weeks had seen a number of meetings of the Chisinau and Tiraspol expert groups on public health, who focused mainly on the problem of importation of medicines and veterinary remedies to the Transnistrian region.

Krasnoselsky and Ignatiev touched also on the politically motivated criminal litigations initiated in Tiraspol and Chisinau, on the need to stop them and to exchange the documentation concerned.

“So far, we can’t see any particular enthusiasm from the Moldovan side, so we are continuing everything depending on us for settling this problem. We are expecting concrete actions from the Moldovan side”, said Vitaly Ignatiev.

Speaking of the activities of expert groups in telecommunications, the foreign minister said that at their latest working meeting a ‘road map’ was signed in pursuance of the Rome Protocol. According to the map, the Moldovan side must, in particular, determine the parameters of the distribution of frequencies, which question is among the most problematic issues. Vitaly Ignatiev said that presently the expert groups hold no working meetings because the Chisinau representatives are not yet ready to provide a concrete answer within the framework of the ‘road map’.

“But work on the technical level is not stopped. Negotiations on telecommunications with OSCE representatives are going on. Chisinau is resolving this question with concrete economic operators in the telecommunications sphere. We hope that in the nearest future we will receive a concrete reply in pursuance of the commitments Moldova has undertaken on this question”, said Vitaly Ignatiev.