Congress in Transnistria adopted provocative decisions, Ukraine Says |
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The March 31 congress of all-level deputies in the self-styled Transnistrian Moldovan Republic passed decisions that were provocative with respect to Ukraine, believes Ukrainian President's Representative at the Transnistrian conflict negotiations, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador-at-Large Andrei Veselovsky.
He told a briefing in Kiev Monday that CEOs in Igor Smirnov's administration made unfriendly anti-Ukraine statements at the congress. "Transnistrian president Igor Smirnov himself avoided speaking about the role Ukraine plays in the Transnistrian settlement work, did not mention our participation in the peacekeeping operation in Transnistria, and forgot to say that the Joint Control Commission [for the Transnistrian Conflict Settlement] has repeatedly highlighted the objectivity and professionalism of our officers serving there. He permitted himself to say that the customs regime on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border was resumed due to the mercenary interests of certain officials and in the context of the elections [of March 26] to the Ukrainian Supreme Rada", Veselovsky said. In his words, had that really been so, the new customs regime would have been lifted after the elections, "but this has not happened - first and foremost because that was not a conjuncture decision but a decision by the Government of Ukraine aimed at restoration of a normal customs regime on European borders". The diplomat advised that on April 6, the Head of the European Union Mission for border assistance to Ukraine and Moldova, Gen. Ferenc Banfi, will visit Kiev to make public the European Union's official position on the situation developing on the Transnistrian segment of the Moldova-Ukraine state border. INFOTAG Moldova Azi
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