A meeting of the Transnistrian settlement talks in the 5+2 format will take place in Bratislava on October 9 and 10. The 5+2 meeting will review the course of implementation of confidence-building measures agreed in the framework of the “Berlin-plus” package and will scope possible complementary and new priority issues for further confidence building measures, the OSCE Mission to Moldova said in a press release.

The talks will be hosted by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák and Franco Frattini, the Special Representative of the Slovak Chairperson-in-Office for the Transnistrian Settlement Process.

On Thursday, at 12:00 Chisinau time, a press briefing on the outcomes of the 5+2 talks will be held. It will be also broadcast via video link to the OSCE Mission in Chisinau.

Last time the 5+2 format met on May 29 and 30, 2018.