Peacekeeping post on Cocieri-Dubasari-Rabnita roadway to stay one more week

The Joint Control Commission (CUC) decided Thursday, January 18, to prolong the activity of the peacekeeping post on Cocieri-Dubasari-Rabnita roadway by one more week, Moldova’s CUC representative Ion Leahu told Info-Prim Neo. As he says, though the sides agreed last week that the post will continue its activity until the next CUC sitting, meaning till Thursday, Tiraspol representatives sought to extend the activity of the peacekeeping force post. Chisinau representatives, although insisted, could not persuade the other sides that it is right to exclude this post, which does not fulfil any mission that would match peacekeeping troops’ duties. In order to avoid useless debates, Chisinau accepted the proposal to prolong the activity of the peacekeeping post till January 25, Leahu stated. The quoted source added that during the Thursday’s sitting, an observer on behalf of Russia was assigned, and Russian colonel Vitalii Andreev was confirmed as head of the General Staff of the peacekeeping troops. On Friday, January 12, representatives of Moldovan police came into conflict with Transnistrian militia after a mobile police post had installed itself several metres far from the established place. On January 13, as a result of the CUC extraordinary sitting’s decision to ensure stability on the roadway between Dubasari and Cocieri, a peacekeeping post was installed.