Tiraspol turns down Filat – Shevchuk meeting in Lvov

The meeting of Prime Minister Vlad Filat and the Transnistrian leader Yevgeny Shevchuk on the sidelines of the Transnistrian conflict settlement talks in Ukraine’s Lvov will most probably not take place. According to the latest information provided by the organizers, the representatives of Tiraspol refused such a meeting, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqué from the Reintegration Office. Earlier, following an initiative from the Ukrainian OSCE Presidency, all the players involved were informed about Vlad Filat’s readiness to have a separate meeting with Yevgeny Shevchuk in Lvov, within the talks in the 5+2 format that are to take place on February 18-19. The Transnistrian press reported that the meeting of the two officials in Lvov will be held only if the political representatives of the sides prepare solutions to the existing problems, which can be approved by Yevgeny Shevchuk and Vlad Filat. The draft agenda of the Lvov talks includes a series of topical subjects from the three conventional baskets that concern the free movement, the education sector, the human rights, cooperation in combating crime, civil protection, and others.