Joint Control Commission holds weekly meeting in Bender

Chisinau, 21 April /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova’s delegation today moved to Bender, where a weekly meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) was held, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.  

The incident related to the abusive stopping of the Moldovan delegation’s members, occurred one week earlier, at the post illegally checked by Tiraspol, represented the central subject discussed during the debates on the report of the Joint Military Command on the situation in the Security Zone for the 13-19 April 2022.  

The provocative and unprecedented actions of Tiraspol, aimed against Chisinau’s representatives, and the way the mechanism of the peacekeeping mission reacted were covered in a declaration of Moldova’s delegation.  

The Moldovan delegation highlighted the lawlessness of the so-called ‘’border guards’ troops’’ in the Security Zone which, having no connection with the peacekeeping mission, prevent the Joint Control Commission from carrying out its competences just, as they were prescribed in the ceasefire agreement from 21 July 1992.   

The Chisinau delegation revealed also other infringements committed by the Transnistrian power-wielding structures on the last period, among which the setting of modular constructions at the ‘’border guard’’ posts from Gasca on 23 March this year, as well as nearby the Cosnita commune at the intersection of the roads Dubasari-Cosnita-Grigoriopol, which took place on 16 April 2022, on a day-off at midnight. This consolidation of the infrastructure of the illegal post was undertaken, even if the Cosnita mayor had earlier notified the Commission that the concerned post hinders the free movement in the Security Zone, including of the owners of farmlands beyond the Tiraspol-Rabnita highway.      

Moldova’s delegation drew attention of representatives of Russia, OSCE, Ukraine and OSCE Mission that such actions increased the distance between the sides’ positions, disorganized the peacekeeping mechanisms and can have unpredictable consequences.  

Given that, during the consideration of these issues, the Transnistrian delegation did not stop putting the actions of the so-called ‘’border guards’’ above the peacekeeping mission, the sides failed to approve a pertinent decision and the meeting was interrupted.

The Joint Control Commission is to hold another meeting on 28 April and the discussions on the subject will be resumed.