The Transnistrian conflict can and should be resolved and there are realistic scenarios in this regard, but there is no one to whom these can be offered, in Chisinau first of all, programs director at the Institute for Public Policy Oazu Nantoi said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. According to him, the Republic of Moldova is a captive state and, if a special legal status is provided to the Transnistrian region, it will become a pseudo-state without chances and prospects of becoming a real state, IPN reports.
“We witness a competition between different geopolitical interests amid the incompetence and complicity of the administration of the Republic of Moldova,” stated Oazu Nantoi.
As to the federalization conception, the analyst said that in Moldova’s case this will not help resolve the dispute. “We speak about the conservation of the vices inherited from the Soviet past that were amplified by the authoritarian regime that exists on the left side of the Nistru and is supported by the Russian Federation. The conservation of these vices and their integration into the space of the Moldovan state cause the death of the statehood project,” he noted.
According to Oazu Nantoi, the federalization envisions not the resolution of the conflict, but the destruction of the state. It means the end of statehood and establishment of a Russian protectorate.
In July, the Federal Minster for Foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid a visit to Moldova as the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. After a meeting with Prime Minister Pavel Filip, the official said that Germany considers Transnistria should be offered a special status, but only as part of the Republic of Moldova as a sovereign and territorially integral state.
Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu later announced that Chisinau and Tiraspol during the next half a year will not discuss a special status for the Transnistrian region because a new leader is to be elected in Transnistria at this yearend.
