Filat to discuss resumption of official talks and Ilie Cazac’s release with Smirnov

Prime Minister Vlad Filat will raise the release of Ilie Cazac, the resumption of the official Transnistrian conflict settlement talks in the 5+2 format, the restoration of freight train routes and other issues in the meeting with the leader of the Transnistrian region Igor Smirnov that will take place on the sidelines of a conference in Germany on September 8-9, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We will discuss the recommencement of the negotiations in the “5+2” format, problems that can be solved in the immediate period, like the release of Ilie Cazac and restoration of freight train routes, the fixed-line phone reconnection and gasification of a settlement,” Vlad Filat said after the meting of the Council of the Alliance for European Integration. He stressed that the main objective of the discussion will be to create the conditions needed to reopen the official talks in Moscow on September 22. Vlad Filat had a number of informal meetings with Igor Smirnov during football games played in Tiraspol.