New plan for Transdniestrian conflict settlement
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Thursday, 13 October 2005 |
Moldova.org - Falls Church, VA, USA
The official Chisinau asserts it knows nothing about the new plan for Transdniestrian conflict settlement that was recently published on the site www.ipp.md. The author of this plan is unknown but it is supposed that the document was worked out by the Kremlin.
The text of the plan gives to understand that first of all Transdniestria will be recognized as state at international level. The document says that the status of Transdniestria will be definitively established during the negotiations process that will include the involved sides - Chisinau and Tiraspol ? and mediators on behalf of Russia, Ukraine, and OSCE ?, the role of the EU and US being limited to expert advice.
The anonymous document envisages the legalization of the Russian military presence in Moldova for an indefinite period. Under the plan, the future common state will be named Moldavia and will be formed of the Bessarabian side of the Republic of Moldova and of Transdniestria.
The Moldovan Parliament and Transdniestrias supreme soviet will form a bilateral parliament which will include an equal number of representatives of the Moldovan and Transdniestrian side?, the document reads. Transdniestria will have the right to take part in the formulation of the foreign policy of the future common state in aspects that concern it or affect its interests.
The plan runs that Moldavia? will be a demilitarized state which will need military guarantees ensured by an international contingent within which the main role will be played by Russia and Ukraine under the OSCE aegis.
Contacted by REPORTER.MD, Minister of Reintegration Vasile Sova told that he does not know anything about the existence of such a document and categorically refuted the rumors spread by the media according to which he would have received a copy of this plan from Odessa.
It should be mentioned that the Tiraspol administration declared that the meeting from October 27 in extended format ??5+2?? will analyze Russias proposals for conflict settlement.
Valeri Litkai, head of Transdniestrias foreign relations department, was quoted by Olvia-press agency as saying after the consultations held in Odessa that the new settlement plan tabled by Russia is a serious document that appeared as a result of four-month consultations with all the sides involved, inclusively with Tiraspol?.
According to Litkai, this document contains about 75 percent of the Kozak Plan and 15 percent of the Yushchenko Plan and it does not correspond to the documents that have been recently adopted by the Moldovan Parliament. // Reporter.MD
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