OSCE welcomes latest developments in Transnistrian conflict settlement process

Chisinau, 26 April /MOLDPRES/ - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) welcomes the signing of the protocol decision on the participation of the vehicles from the Transnistrian region in the international road traffic. OSCE said that the document was an important step in the Transnistrian conflict settlement process.

OSCE Secretary General OSCE Thomas Greminger has made statements to this effect at a meeting with Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Tudor Ulianovschi in New York. The Moldovan diplomacy head participates in a high-level meeting  of the  United Nations General Assembly on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry’s press service has reported. The OSCE secretary general emphasized that the negotiations on the Transnistrian settlement process had recorded notable progress, including due to the openness and political will of both sides. The official noted that the OSCE would back the efforts of the participants in the talks on the Transnistrian conflict settlement, with the observance of Moldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, by providing a special status to Transnistria.  

Minister Tudor Ulianovschi appreciated OSCE position. He said that the Transnistrian problem settlement was one of the basic goals of the government’s action programme and all efforts of the authorities were aimed at creating political pre-requisites for the process of peaceful settlement of the Transnistrian conflict.