PCRM accuses government of incapacity to negotiate delimitation of border with Ukraine

The Communists Party (PCRM) accuses the government of incapacity to negotiate the delimitation of the border with Ukraine. Statements to this effect were made by Communist MPs Igor Dodon and Vasile Sova in a news conference on February 16, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Igor Dodon, the present government hurried to recognize Ukraine's ownership right over the Dnestrovsk segment. “As there are great interests in that area, including private ones, we wonder why there was such a haste,” Igor Dodon said. The heavyweights of the PCRM say the talks carried out by the present government are non-transparent and the unwillingness to publish the text of the agreements between the parties proves this. “Initially, it was agreed that the road segment in Palanca will be leased out to Ukraine for 99 years, but in several years there appeared the phrase “transfer under the ownership”, said Vasile Sova. “Experts of the two parties resumed the negotiations in 2005. They have looked for mutually acceptable solutions. In June 2008, the presidents of the two countries, during a meeting in Saint Petersbourg, decided that all the border-related issues will be discussed in package, which is an appropriate method for solving such problems” Igor Dodon said it is wrong to discuss such segments as Dnestrovsk, Palanca and Giurgiulesti separately as this is to Moldova's detriment. “I'm very curious to know who will sign the document whereby the road segment in Palanca is ceded to Ukraine. Who will be the traitor?,” Igor Dodon asked. He also asked the press why the solving of such important problems was entrusted to a member of the Democratic Party. Vasile Sova stressed that the subjects raised by the PCRM do not refer to the decisions and steps taken by the Ukrainian Government, but to the ways in which the present government tackles them.