RUSSIA AND TRANSNISTRIA REPRESENTATIVES FOR HOLDING 5+2 FORMAT MEETINGS ON SYSTEMIC AND REGULAR BASIS

The potential of the 5+2 format negotiations ought to be engaged to its full extent, and 5+2 format meetings ought to be held on a systemic and regular basis. Such opinion was spoken out by the chief negotiator of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR), its minister of foreign affairs Vitaly Ignatiev and the President Putin's Special Envoy at the Transnistria negotiations, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Sergey Gubarev, who met in Moscow on Thursday.

The parties discussed the perspectives of holding the next ordinary meeting in the 5+2 negotiating format. The conversation was attended also by Vitaly Tryapitsyn, Deputy Director of the Second CIS Department at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and by Transnistria's ambassador-at-large in the rank of a deputy foreign minister Ruslan Slobodeniuk. The parties held a detailed exchange of opinions on the current condition of the negotiation process between Moldova and Transnistria with an accent placed on realization of the accords reached between the Sides. They attached a particular attention to the functioning of the mechanism of participation of Transnistrian motor vehicles in the international road traffic.

The interlocutors discussed a broad complex of issues of the bilateral Russia-Transnistria interaction in various fields. They agreed to maintain "a high intensity of their contacts in all topical directions of their joint work".

As was already reported by Infotag, OSCE Special Representative on Transnistria Franco Frattini stated last Monday on the results of his visit to Chisinau and Tiraspol that the next round of the 5+2 format talks on Transnistrian conflict settlement will take place only if the Sides achieve tangible practical results in their dialog.