The works to renovate trilateral checkpoint No. 9/right of the joint peacekeeping forces set up on the bridge over the Nistru, near Vadul lui Vodă town, started in accordance with the de decision of the Joint Control Commision. All the artificial obstacles will be removed from the roadway and the Coşnita – Bălăbăneşti – Dubăsarii Vechi road that hasn’t been used for 29 years and the intersection of the Chisinau – Vadul lui Vodă road will be unblocked, IPN reports, quoting the Reintegration Policies Bureau.

The works will be performed in stages, until the end of this year, and will include the relocation of the checkpoint’s infrastructure, especially of the reinforced concrete blocks and armored tanks, in accordance with the plan worked out by the Joint Military Command of the joint peacekeeping forces, which was approved by the Joint Control Commission. Later, there will be installed the power supply system, new equipment and furniture.

Similar works will be performed at checkpoint No. 9/left. This will be relocated from the roadway and will no longer hamper movement.

The checkpoint of the joint peacekeeping forces situated on the bridge over the Nistru, near Vadul lui Vodă, is the place where Vadim Pisari, a 19-year-old man from Pârâta village, died after he was shot by a Russian peacekeeper on January 1, 2012. The ECHR condemned Russia in this case and ordered to pay €35,000 damages and €5,580 court costs to Vadim Pisarri’s family. Experts in security studies proposed replacing the military peacekeeping mission with a civilian one managed by the OSCE.