Germany considers the Transnistrian region must be offered a special status only as part of the sovereign and territorially integral Moldova, stated the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The official is paying a two-day visit to Moldova, IPN reports.
After a meeting with Prime Minister Pavel Filip, the German official said that an increasing number of conflicts appear in the region without the old ones being resolved. The OSCE makes effort for the communication between Chisinau and Tiraspol to be efficient as most of the solutions to the arising problems can be identified by dialogue.
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office noted that any conflict that seems frozen can break out, as it happened in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier added that the OSCE insists on implementing two agreements reached during the round of talks in the 5+2 format held in Berlin – the Transnistrian university certificates to be apostilled in Chisinau and the license plates for motor vehicles issued by the Transnistrian administration to be recognized and accepted in international traffic.
Pavel Filip assured that the Moldovan authorities will do their best to put the agreements reached in Berlin into practice. He believes that results can be also obtained in ensuring convenient telephone connection between the two banks of the Nistru, free movement and the access of farmers from Dubasari district to their land situated on the left side of the Nistru.
The Premier expressed his readiness to implement, together with the Cabinet members, a strategy for providing a special political status to the Transnistrian region.
Later today the German minister will pay a visit to Tiraspol.
