The Reintegration Policies Bureau (RPB) describes as “surprising” the message of the chief negotiator of Tiraspol, by which this informs about the intention to limit, until June 30, 2022, the implementation period of the Protocol decision concerning the mechanism for using the farmland in Dubăsari district. “We invite Tiraspol to return to a constructive and consecutive dialogue centering on the sustainable implementation of the undertake commitments, the respect for the basic human rights and freedoms of the people from both sides of the Nistru and to exclude unilateral tactics aimed at imposing unacceptable conditionality,” the Bureau says in a press release that is quoted by IPN.
Tiraspol invoked the alleged non-execution by Chisinau of the provisions of point 5 of the Protocol decision concerning the utilization of farmland situated in Dubăsari district, beyond the Tiraspol-Camenca road, of November 25, 2017. The RPB explained that the decision consists of two interdependent elements: restoration of “the mechanism of 2006” and ensuring of access to the farmland, and, if this problem is solved, informing of the responsible bodies of the Republic of Moldova about the annulment of all the restrictions imposed earlier by officials of the region so as to consider the possibility of reviewing the procedural measures imposed on those to blame.
The Bureau noted the mechanism for ensuring access to the farmland was implemented partially and intermittently by Tiraspol as the problem of publicly owned land of the territorial-administrative units of Dubăsari district hasn’t been solved. The developments in the case of farmland owners and the attitude of factors from Tiraspol to these have been in the focus of the responsible national authorities that acted within the limits of the current normative framework, avoiding taking measures against the law and for political purposes. Therefore, the argument invoked by Tiraspol is unfounded and has purely political undertones as the Protocol decision does not have an implementation deadline.
The RPB said that by August 1, 2018, when the farmers covered by “the mechanism of 2006” started again to have access to their farmland, following the losses sustained by owners of farmland in Dubăsari as a result of the obstacles to cultivating the land created intentionally by the Transnistrian administration, the Government of the Republic of Moldova provided partial subsidies and made support payments to the value of almost 52 million lei.
