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Groups working on enhancing trust between Chisinau and Tiraspol sign intention protocol on transports


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The working groups pursuing to enhance the trust between Chisinau and Tiraspol have signed an intention protocol on transports. It provides for the two parties to use the grant offered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation from the USA. The projects envisages to build and repair international transport corridors, Info-Prim Neo's correspondent reports. The delegations have committed to adopt joint regulations on passenger carrying, traveling schedules for buses. The parties met on February 9 in the OSCE office in Tiraspol. The last meeting of the expert groups to discuss transportation issues was held in November 2008. In October 2007, the Chisinau Government launched an idea to set up 7 expert groups to draft and implement joint projects dealing with infrastructure, railway, healthcare and social protection, education and youth, ensuring the free movement of people within the Security Zone, with disarming and demilitarization. Tiraspol and Chisinau decided to pay key attention to the trust-raising working groups after the December 2008 meeting between Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and the Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov.