​TRANSNISTRIA IS MUCH AHEAD OF PALESTINE IN TERMS OF DEMOCRACY – TIRASPOL LEADER

“Palestine and Transnistria are incomparable. We are much ahead in terms of the development of democracy, power institutes and economy”, presumes the president of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic [PMR] Vadim Krasnoselsky.

He touched on this question during his meeting with Transnistrian television journalists held last weekend, and remarked that Palestine has a special status in the United Nations, while Transnistria has none.

Nevertheless, Krasnoselsky believes that his recent request to the United Nations to grant such status to Transnistria, too, was heard by the UN, “like the Organization heard also our request to provide us with a platform for presenting information about what the Transnistrian republic really is, about what is taking place here, including in the sphere of human rights”.

“We were heard. I can open your some details. The visit paid by our Moscow Representative Leonid Manakov to the United Nations’ 40th Session on Human Rights was not accidental. Manakov went to the UN Session on the United Nations’ invitation sent to Transnistria. In Geneva, Manakov presented a report on how human rights are observed in Transnistria – in the complicated conditions our independent state has to withstand. Manakov made a conclusion in his report that the rights of all ethnic groups in Transnistria can be guaranteed only on condition that the PMR statehood is preserved”, said Vadim Krasnoselsky.

In his words, the Transnistrian people are a fully settled human entity, and Transnistria is a democratic state, where all power institutions are available and working, and where human rights are duly observed.

“We seek to make Transnistria an attractive country, and want to distribute information about how we really live here – and not all sorts of nonsense about armed men, tanks and airplanes. Such lies are distributed by forces interested to present Transnistria in grey tones. We are building a socially-oriented state with a market economy, i.e. a state working for its people. And we must show all this. We must arouse investors’ interest”, said Vadim Krasnoselsky.

He reminded that after the opening of a PMR representation in Moldova, he has set a task to open analogous offices in Kiev, “because Ukraine is an international mediator to and guarantor of the 5+2 negotiation process”, and in Brussels, “because the European Union is a major trade partner to Transnistria and an observer to the 5+2 process”.