The Special Representative of the Austrian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transnistrian Settlement Process, Wolf Dietrich Heim, will visit Chisinau and Tiraspol between September 6 and 8, 2017, IPN reports.

In Chisinau, Ambassador Heim will meet with Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Galbur and Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration and Moldovan Chief Negotiator Gheorghe Balan. In Tiraspol, the Special Representative will meet with Transnistrian Chief Negotiator Vitaly Ignatiev.

During his visit, Ambassador Heim will also have a meeting with the resident Ambassadors of the Russian Federation and Ukraine (Mediators), as well as the European Union and the United States (Observers) as part of the international partners’ co-ordinated efforts within the 5+2 format to support the sides in moving the process forward in accordance with the OSCE Ministerial Council Statement agreed in Hamburg in December 2016.

On September 8, Ambassador Heim will give a press conference at the premises of the OSCE Mission to Moldova in Chisinau.