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United States Disappointed by Postponement of Talks

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Saturday, 08 April 2006

The United States expressed deep concern April 6 following a breakdown in negotiations to end the conflict in the Transnistria region of Moldova and the indefinite postponement of the next round of the five-sided talks that had been scheduled for April 3-7.

Kyle Scott, charg? daffaires for the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said the United States hopes the "Tiraspol regime will reconsider the decision and return to the negotiating table to hold serious discussions" on several key issues. Tiraspol is the administrative center for Transnistrian separatists.

The unresolved issues highlighted by Scott include:

Monitoring Transnistria's military-industrial enterprises;

Implementing an international assessment to evaluate the possibility for free and fair, internationally monitored elections in the Transnistrian region; and

Resolving the plight of farmers in Dorotscaia who have been denied access to their fields.

Scott said the United States also is concerned by news reports of a planned independence referendum in the Transnistria region, saying the United States will not recognize such a referendum. "We reiterate our support for Moldova's sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said. (See related article.)

Talks concerning the status of Transnistria have been ongoing since 1992, although they broke down in mid-2004 when Russian and Ukrainian-speaking separatists forcibly closed a Moldovan language school in Transnistria, threatened five other schools with closure and then impeded international assistance to a local orphanage.

The United States participated as an observer in earlier rounds of negotiations and said those talks marked "a small step forward" toward a settlement. (See related article.)

A narrow strip of Moldovan territory between the Dniester River and Moldova's eastern border with Ukraine, Transnistria declared independence in September 1991. Soon after, fighting broke out between the government forces and Transnistrians. The conflict was halted by Russian troops, which remain in the region despite Russian pledges at the 1999 OSCE Istanbul Summit to withdraw them. (See fact sheet.)

"Regrettably, this process has not been completed," Scott said. "We again call on the Russian Federation to resume its withdrawal. This would be an important signal to the Transnistrian leadership that the status quo will not last forever."

Source: U.S. Department of State

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