Moldovan president meets OSCE CIO
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Thursday, 20 October 2005 |
Moldova.org - Falls Church, VA, USA
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin regards the year 2005 as a "very significant" one in the Transnistrian conflict settlement history.
During his meeting with the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitrij Rupel that took place on Tuesday night, the Moldovan leader said that a whole number of questions, which the Republic of Moldova had been raising for so long, found solutions in 2005.
Among particularly important achievements, Vladimir Voronin mentioned the new concept of Transnistrian settlement based on the breakaway region's demilitarization, decriminalization and democratization, and underlined that the document was approved by parliamentary consensus.
The President highlighted the active role played lately by the neighbor Ukraine in the conflict settlement work, inclusion of the European Union and the United States into the negotiation process, and the fact that the OSCE presidency approved the initiative by the Moldovan and Ukrainian Presidents on the preparation and holding free and democratic elections in Transnistria to be monitored internationally.
"Yet another decision so important for overcoming the Transnistrian separatism was that on organizing - under the OSCE aegis - an international control and monitoring of the Moldo-Ukrainian border", reckons the Moldovan President. "All this has been achieved largely thank to the backing and active participation of the Slovenian presidency of the OSCE".
President Voronin expressed gratitude to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for his attention to the Transnistrian conflict settlement efforts and to security buildup efforts so necessary in this region of Europe. The head of state informed the high guest that Moldova will be taking an active part in preparing the final declaration of the OSCE Ministerial Summit due in Ljubljana in December. He said Chisinau will be insisting on including into Summit documents provisions on Transnistrian conflict settlement and the need for making Russia pull it its troops and weapons from the Transnistrian region.
Dmitrij Rupel welcomed the constructive and cooperative stance the Moldovan government demonstrates at implementing OSCE objectives. He thanked President Vladimir Voronin for his high appreciation of the Slovenian presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office voiced hope that the first round of Transnistrian talks in a new enlarged format with the European Union's and United States participation, due next week, will mark a real beginning of the viable political solving of the Transnistria conflict based on the respect for international law, the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova as well as the interests of people living on both Dniester banks.
Touching on the OSCE's attraction to the organization of free and democratic elections in Transnistria, Dmitrij Rupel shared Vladimir Voronin's position - that elections may only be held there after providing all necessary democratic prerequisites and conditions for this.
The interlocutors pointed out that in the left-bank region under separatists control there exist neither multiparty system, nor civil society, nor freedom of the speech. They presume the Tiraspol administration has a real possibility to prove its good intentions - by canceling the December 2005 parliamentary elections, by obeying to the European Court of Human Rights judgment on immediate release of two political prisoners from the so-called Ilascu group, and by observing the right to land which belongs to the residents of several Moldovan villages situated on the left Dniester bank.
President Vladimir Voronin supported the OSCE project on organizing an efficient international control of the Transnistrian military-industrial complex enterprises.// Infotag
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