On the pretext of the pandemic, the de facto authorities of the Transnistrian region unilaterally set up 37 mobile checkpoints in the Security Zone. Of them, 13 remained and the Parliament’s commission on national security, defense and public order pleads for their elimination, the commission’s head Alexandru Jizdan told a news conference.

“We asked our colleagues to present additional information about the state of affairs. The Ministry of Home Affairs reported, for example, that about 400 complaints came from people whose free movement is being hampered. We asked for information about the way in which these complaints were dealt with. We want to know how the Ministry of Home Affairs reacts to the calls made to the 112 Service, how the Moldovan peacekeepers who form part of those groups of peacekeepers react and act and, surely, what actions will be taken by the Bureau of Reintegration. This subject will be on the agenda of the National Security Commission,” stated Alexandru Jizdan.

In the meeting, the Bureau of Reintegration proposed amending the Penal Code so that the Moldovan side could condemn and punish some of the actions of the separatist forces.

The 37 checkpoints in the Security Zone were created unilaterally by the Transnistrian side on the pretext of epidemiological measures. Chisinau described the decision as defiance of the Agreement of July 21, 1992. The opposition political forces and Nistru war veterans criticized the constitutional authorities for not taking more determined decisions when the interests of the Republic of Moldova and its citizens are not respected.

The subject of the checkpoints, which are called sanitary posts by the Transnistrian side, was discussed in the July 28 meeting of President Igor Dodon and the Transnistrian leader Vadim Krasnoselsky. The latter said that a number of posts were eliminated and only 11 remained.