OPENING OF THIRD BASKET IS DRIVING NEGOTIATION PROCESS INTO DEADLOCK – TRANSNISTRIAN LEADER

The participants in the Bavaria Conference, which ended on Tuesday, like in the Bratislava 5+2 format meeting [held on October 9-10] failed to achieve consensuses on some issues, Transnistria president Vadim Krasnoselsky stated at his news conference held in Moscow on Wednesday.

Krasnoselsky called as “inappropriate and tactless” the Moldovan side’s attempts to put up for discussion at the Bavaria Conference a number of questions that had not been considered in Bratislava.

“The Moldovan side should not have acted so. This is categorically incorrect. One has to be prepared to a discussion. It is necessary to get thoroughly prepared on the issues that are included into the agenda. We haven’t been offered to study these questions beforehand. So we did not consider them”, said the Tiraspol leader.

Vadim Krasnoselsky believes it is inexpedient to politicize the negotiation process because “time for this is not ripe yet”.

“And those politicians, who want to combine the 5+2 negotiating format with the opening of the Third Basket, are acting shortsightedly and are driving the negotiation process into a deadlock”, said Vadim Krasnoselsky.