Should the world acknowledge Transdniestria as an independent country?

	Yes, absolutely - if that's what the people want!
	Perhaps, after some changes.
	Not sure, the issue is complicated.
	Definately not, Transdniestria is part of Moldova!
	Where the Hell is Transdniestria?

NATO insists on Russia withdrawing its troops from Moldova

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Monday, 12 December 2005

At the end of Thursdays meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, the NATO foreign ministers made a categorical appeal to Russia to resume and end in the shortest time the withdrawal of its military presence from Moldova.

The document signed by all 26 NATO members reminds Russia that the fulfillment
of the commitments it assumed in Istanbul in 1999 as regards Georgia and Moldova
creates conditions for the NATO member states and the other signatories of the
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty to ratify this revised agreement. “We
welcome the important progresses made by Russia and Georgia as regards the withdrawal
of the Russian troops, mentioned in their common statement dated 30 May 2005,
and we are waiting for the settlement of the unsolved issues. But we regretfully
notice the lack of progress in the process of pulling out Russian forces from
Moldova and we make an appeal to the Russian Federation to resume and end the
withdrawal of its troops as soon as possible,” the communiqué made
public at the end of the meeting reads.

NATO’s reaction comes several days after Russia blocked the adoption
of the final resolution of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, which
also included Russia’s fulfillment of its Istanbul commitments.

In the speech delivered at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Euro-Atlantic
Partnership Council, the Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Stratan, Minister
of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, sought NATO’s support in
solving Moldova’s major issues – Transdniestrian conflict and the
withdrawal of Russian military presence from the territory of the country.

Romania’s Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu drew NATO officials’
attention to the situation in Transdniestria specifying that in order to resume
the dialogue the sides must prove honesty and political maturity, which would
unveil Tiraspol’s underground economic relations with other states involved
in the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict, in order to avoid behind
curtains affairs between the sides concerned. - Reporter.MD

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