Civil society in Chisinau skeptical about potential of future Transnistrian NGO coordination council

Representatives of the civil society in Chisinau consider that it is too early to create an NGO coordination council in the Transnistrian region as this idea must grow ripe, Info-Prim Neo reports. Serghei Neicovcen, the executive director of Contact Center, advised the participants in the Forum of Transnistrian NGOs that took place last weekend to focus on the encountered problems and work with the members of the National Council of the Civil Society of Moldova to solve them as the development level and the conditions in the region are now not appropriate for creating an own council. “A coordination council must be like a bridge between the NGOs and the Government. It is not enough to have representatives in the Council. The problems should be discussed with decision makers and it is not at all easy to organize such things,” Neicovcen said. He proposed creating a council of the Forum that will work our a strategy for implementing the decisions made at the Forum. For his part, the head of Promo-Lex Association Ion Manole said the idea of creating a coordination council of the Transnistrian NGOs has not yet ripened. According to him, there must be formulated the implementation stages and methods first so that it does not fail. “We did not expect such changes, but it is a good sign. It is a sign that the NGOs in Transnistria become mature. We will not tell you what you should do. It is up to you to decide how to develop and go on,” Manole said.