The Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul” will monitor the Transnistrian conflict settlement talks between Chisinau and Tiraspol in the 5+2 format. The synthesis will be included in the informative bulletin “Nistrian Realities” whose first number was launched in Chisinau on July 19, IPN reports.
The bulletin is produced within a project of the U.S German Marshall Fund. Project coordinator Eduard Tugui, political analyst of “Viitorul”, said that besides the monthly informative bulletins, there will be made six sector studies together with colleagues from the Transnistrian region. “The studies will focus on the needs and experiences of the people living on both banks of the Nistru. They will convey messages to the authorities involved in the negotiation process,” he stated.
The project is based on the precondition that the current talks, either the bilateral ones or those in the 5+2 format, didn’t produce palpable results. Eduard Tugui also referred to the eighth meeting in the 5+2 format where only one statement was signed, on the protection of the environment on the bed of the Nistru River. “We consider that such documents can be signed within the working groups. Thus, we aim to stimulate somehow the negotiations, the sector discussions and solutions,” said the project coordinator.
The bulletin will also contain the civil society’s projects that contribute to bringing the two banks of the Nistru closer. The first bulletin includes an editorial written by Eduard Tugui, where the author analyzes succinctly the results achieved in the 5+2 format talks over the last two years and underlines the role played by civil society in this respect.
“Viitorul” executive director Liubomir Chiriac said the Institute considers the efforts made by the Moldovan authorities in the European integration process and in the reintegration process should be supported.
