The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have reiterated today their strong resolve to attain a comprehensive, peaceful settlement of the Transnistrian conflict based on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova with a special status for Transdniestria that fully guarantees the human, political, economic and social rights of its population.
In a statement published today, the Ministers underline the need to achieve tangible progress in the negotiations on all three baskets of the agreed agenda for the negotiation process. Also, the Ministers have emphasized the importance of increasing the frequency of meetings of the political representatives of the sides in 2015 and encourage the sides to hold high level meetings.
The officials encourage the sides to increase the continuity and effectiveness of the process by agreeing at the beginning of the year on a calendar for the official negotiations in the framework of the Transduction settlement process for the whole year. The Ministers invite the sides to implement existing agreed confidence-building measures and develop further measures in the framework of the negotiation process to the benefit of the people on the ground and further urge the sides to refrain from unilateral actions that could destabilize the situation in the region.
The foreign affairs ministers call upon the mediators and observers of the OSCE, Russian Federation, Ukraine, European Union and the United States of America to redouble their co ordinated efforts and to make full use of their potential to promote progress in achieving a comprehensive resolution of the Transnistrian conflict.
