Transnistria and Gagauzia
PRESIDENT DODON HOPES TO MEET WITH TIRASPOL LEADER YET BEFORE NEW YEAR
Moldova President Igor Dodon presumes that his next meeting with Transnistria president Vadim Krasnoselsky may well be organized yet before the end of 2018.
He said while communicating live in the social networks on Tuesday night: "We think hard over the settlement of the Transnistrian problem, and I want the settlement job to advance in the right direction. Over the two years of my presidency of Moldova, the sides have achieved certain successes that permit to hope for further settling of the conflict", said the Moldovan President.
Dodon expressed hope that the meeting will take place, "though Vadim Krasnoselsky has been evading contacts lately for unknown reasons".
"My position on the settlement question is: Transnistria must have a broad autonomy, with the preservation of its budget, anthem and so forth. But there must be a common border [with Ukraine] and a common tax system. I hope in the nearest year we will reach an agreement on how to act further", said Igor Dodon.
As was already reported by Infotag, in early November Igor Dodon also stated that his meeting with Vadim Krasnoselsky would take place before the end of this year. And at his news conference on his official visit to Moscow, Dodon stated that the meeting with Krasnoselsky was really necessary and that the Transnistrian settlement question had been discussed in Moscow.
On the following day after that, Krasnoselsky stated he could not see any need for organizing a meeting with Igor Dodon in December.
"The holding of such summit meetings is justified only if the parties have a topical and weighty agenda. But we have none of this at the moment. I believe it is pointless to meet just for the sake of meeting", said Vadim Krasnoselsky then.
At the end of December, both Igor Dodon and Vadim Krasnoselsky will mark the 2nd anniversary of their presidencies. Over this period, they have had 4 meetings. Right after their election, they first met in Bendery city on January 4, 2017. Then in April, in the Holercani, a picturesque locality on the right Dniester River bank, where a countryside Moldovan presidential residence is situated. One more meeting was scheduled for July, but it was upset after the Moldovan authorities had declared President Putin's Special Representative on Transnistria, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as a persona non grata.
After one-year-long pause the two leaders met again in Bendery in April 2018, and then in September in the Condrita countryside presidential residence situated in the namesake picturesque Chisinau suburban locality some 30 kilometers off the capital city.
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