The OSCE members call for internationalisation of the “peace-keeping mechanism” in the Transnistrian region

The representatives of EU, USA, GUAM and the Republic of Moldova consider necessary to transform the present “peace-keeping mechanism” in the security zone into a multinational peace-keeping mission, with an international mandate, was mentioned at the Permanent Council of OSCE on April 27. According to a communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, at the meeting was declared that the tensioned situation in the security zone and the continuous provocations of the regime from Tiraspol show the fact that the mechanism only preserves the conflict, serving in this way the interests of the separatist regime, a situation that can no longer be tolerated by the international community. In this context EU, USA, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine expressed their availability to restart as faster as possible the “5+2” format negotiations. As well, there were condemned the unilateral actions and provocations from April 21 operated by the Transnistrian force structures that seized a harbour utility in the Varnita village, it being under the jurisdiction of Chisinau. The separatist regime from Tiraspol was demanded to give back immediately and unconditionally the seized property and to free all the illegally arrested persons. Except for the Russian Federation, the OSCE member countries qualified as groundless and counterproductive the attempts of the separatist regime to auto isolate the region, as a response to the Moldo-Ukrainian customs regime agreement enforced starting March 3, 2006. The Republic of Moldova, USA and GUAM made a new appeal to the Russian Federation to resume the withdrawal of its troupes and munitions from the Moldovan territory in conformity with the commitments taken in 1999 at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul. Also, the Moldovan delegation reminded to the participants that the wine export bans imposed for the Moldovan wine by the Russian authorities was not yet solved, the reasons being others than the claimed ones, is also said in the communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.