IPP launches continuation of Black Sea Peacebuilding Network Project

The Institute for Public Policy (IPP) hopes the Transnistrian conflict could be solved with the help of sector policies worked out as part of the Black Sea Peacebuilding Network Project. IPP head Arcadie Barbarosie and project manager Oazu Nantoi launched the continuation of the given project in a news conference on May 31, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Arcadie Barbarosie, the goal of the project is to make the NGO activities aimed at strengthening peace and establishing direct relations at European level more efficient. The Institute for Public Policy monitors the situation, analyzes the steps take by the authorities and tries to identify optimal solutions for solving the conflict. Arcadie Barbarosie said the Government, though it does not interfere in the editorial policy of the public broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova, should ask the company to produce a series of programs to inform the Transnistrians, who are now deprived of the right to be correctly informed. For his part, Oazu Nantoi said the Black Sea Peacebuilding Network Project is implemented by specialists who always have proposals for solving the conflict. Among them are experts from Transnistria. Discussions are held on all the aspects of the Transnistrian dispute. According to Oazu Nantoi, the negotiations are not the only method of resolving the dispute. The last meeting in the 5+2 format took place on February 28, 2006. The experts carry out studies of public policies and formulate sector policies in such areas as the labor market, social protection, financial system, health protection, education. “Such an approach will enable to recalculate the resources for re-qualifying specialists such as doctors and teachers, if the country is reunified. Time will come when these studies will be useful,” Oazu Nantoi said. The Black Sea Peacebuilding Network Project was launched in 2006 by Crisis Management Initiative, which is financed by the Finish Foreign Ministry. It involves NGOs from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldova. This year, the project will be expanded to include NGOs from Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.