​NEW YEAR’S FIRST JCC MEETING TRADITIONALLY UPSET DUE TO FAILURE TO AGREE UPON AGENDA

This year’s first meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC, the supervisory body for the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, JPF) failed to be held on Thursday: like in previous several months, the Chisinau and Tiraspol delegations were not able to approve on their work agenda.

According to Tiraspol mass media, Transnistria’s JCC Co-Chairman Oleg Belyakov explained the deadlock by saying that a whole range of questions, which the Moldovan delegation had put forward, “failed to find their logical promotion”. According to him, the Moldovan side keeps trying to include into the agenda the questions that have no relation to the JCC work.

“As a rule, such proposed questions are from the negotiation process area. Therefore it is inexpedient to initiate and discuss them in the Commission that tackles exclusively the questions of peace in the Security Zone”, said Oleg Belyakov.

According to the JPF, there were no serious incidents in the Transnistria Security Zone in the past period of winter holidays, and the situation in the Zone is remaining calm and under control.

Moldova’s National Bureau for Country Reintegration has not reported anything about the yesterday’s JCC meeting.