Of all the frozen conflicts, the Transnistrian one can be most easily settled. One of the reasons is that the war of 1990 didn’t have the size of other frozen conflicts such as those in South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh or Cyprus, Stefan Schennach, chairman of the PACE subcommittee on frozen conflicts, stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe, IPN reports.
According to him, everything changed after the last revolution in Ukraine. Transnistria no longer attracts the same attention from the Russian Federation as earlier. Furthermore, the Russians do not want to be brought into the focus of attention at world level with the problems they face with so many countries. “Transnistria is very small and, actually, cannot survive by itself. Now that the border with Ukraine was closed, the only possibility for the Transnistrian authorities is to go through Chisinau and to do what they did in Ukraine in Chisinau too. Even for political discussions. This shows that something changed and we should use this change,” stated Stefan Schennach.
He also said that in the territories where there are frozen conflicts, the ordinary people are those who suffer, not the politicians or leaders. The ordinary people are deprived of goods and freedom. The politicians can leave, travel as they have passports. The ordinary people encounter problems because their studies are not accepted everywhere in the world. Their passports are not recognized. The authorities in Chisinau and Tiraspol must cooperate. They must want a solution and must find a model.
