Impasse in talks on redrawing check-points from ‘security zone’

The negotiations on considering the draft decision on withdrawing the checkpoints of the law-enforcing organs from the security zone have reached a stall, Info-Prim Neo reports as informed by the Defense Ministry. During an ordinary sitting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) on Thursday, March 20, the talks on the issue failed because of the Transnistrian side, said Ion Solonenco, the JCC co-chairmen on behalf of Moldova. The talks reached impasse because the delegation tried to set up for discussion an issue not included in the order of the day, Ion Solonenco specified, quoted by the Defense Ministry’s press service. The JCC Moldovan co-chairman suggested the Transnistrian delegation to postpone the discussion of that issue, as it can be tackled again some time later. At the same time, the Ukrainian and OSCE representatives in the JCC reiterated their support for Moldova’s position on maintaining that issue on the order of the day of the next sitting. According to Ion Solonenco, withdrawing the checkpoints of the law-enforcing bodies from the security zone will have a beneficial effect for the citizens living on both banks of the Nistru and will be an important step in demilitarizing the area. The JCC gets complaints from ordinary people every week. The free traveling of the people is restricted, and they are compelled to pay taxes regardless of the fact if they go to visit some relative or to a burial to the other bank of the Nistru, specifies the Moldovan co-chairman in the Joint Control Commission monitoring the situation where the hostilities took place in the 1992 war.