{"id":175112,"date":"2011-06-15T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2011\/06\/15\/republic-of-moldova-is-on-the-agenda-in-washington-221925-eng\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:59:46","slug":"republic-of-moldova-is-on-the-agenda-in-washington-221925-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/republic-of-moldova-is-on-the-agenda-in-washington-221925-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Moldova is on the agenda in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Elena Vnorovscaia \/ Chi\u015fin\u0103u \/ Moldova.ORG \/ &#8212; Today the problem of the Transnistrian conflict is a painful one not only for the Republic of Moldova, but also attracts the attention of various international organizations. So today, June 14, 2011, there was held a discussion on theme &ldquo;Prospects for Unfreezing Moldova&rsquo;s Frozen Conflict in Transnistria&rdquo; at Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. Among others in the briefing there participated such speakers as the Honorable Igor Munteanu, Moldovan Ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/foundation.moldova.org\/pages\/eng\/111\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vlad Spanu<\/a>, President of the Moldova Foundation in Washington, D.C., Mr. Lyndon K. Allin, Corporate lawyer based in Washington, D.C. and 2008-2009 IREX US Embassy Policy Specialist in Chisinau. <\/p>\n<p>A recorded video and photos from the event can be viewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/politicom.moldova.org\/page\/live-webstreaming-us-helsinki-commissions-public-briefing-on-moldovas-frozen-conflict-1399-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda were such topics as the respect for human rights in the conflict zone, the responsibility of those who is involved in the political and economic situation in Transnistrian territories as well as some possible solutions and new tactics for the process of reintegration of the Moldovan State.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Honorary Ambassador Igor Munteanu proposed to discuss the following issues: the commitment of villages&rsquo; population of the Eastern Dniester Bank to Moldovan authorities and the denial of human rights and democratic freedoms in the region, local self-proclaimed Tiraspol regime. Mr. Munteanu drew public attention to the fact of closure of schools and orphanages in which the Romanian-speaking children are brought up to the Russification and depriving the local population of any chance to keep and preserve the Latin alphabet script and native language. The Ambassador considers that illegal acts of so-called Transnistrian authorities, kidnapping, arrests, illegal confinement in captivity, Moldovan citizens&rsquo; and Transnistrian residents&rsquo; tortures and the accusations of espionage for their country (per example, Mr. Vardanyan, Cazac cases and others) are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict should be resolved as soon as possible in order to stop discrimination against the indigenous population, the violation and abuse of democratic freedoms and unlawful confinement local inhabitants of Transnistria, as well as tax less export of goods to European markets. Mr. Munteanu considers that there should be developed a system of strict monitoring of borders of the state, a system for the protection of fundamental human rights and implicated the 3-D Program (Demilitarization, Decriminalization and Democratization of the Transnistrian region) in the conflict region. Igor Munteanu believes that there should be withdrawal of Russian troops from areas of political conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In his turn, Mr. Vlad Spanu, President of Moldova to the United States, says that self-proclaimed in 1990-1991 years the so-called Transnistrian authorities are nothing but puppets of the Russian Federation, which meets geopolitics, aimed at restoring its influence in the former Soviet Union. President of Moldova Foundation believes that Moldovan citizens, living nowadays in Transnistrian territories, are held there as hostages in a kind of ghetto, where its residents have no rights or freedoms. Mr. Spanu listed the historical causes of the Russian presence in the region, amongst which are the 1792 &#8211; Treaty of Ia\u0219i, signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, after which Russia, for the first time, reached the Dniester border and became the neighbor of the Principality of Moldova; the 1812 Treaty of Bucharest between the same two actors, resulted in the partition of the Principality of Moldova, the Eastern half of which was incorporated into Russia as Bessarabia until the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; the 1924 creation, within the Soviet Ukraine, of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Republic on the Eastern Bank of Dniester where the majority constituted ethnic Romanian population, as bridge-head to once again successfully occupy Bessarabia in 1940 by the Red Army, as an outcome of the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939. Finally, in 1990-1991, the same territory East of Dniester, with its main city Tiraspol, was once again used by the Kremlin master-minds as an outpost to keep the Soviet Moldova from getting away from USSR&rsquo;s, then, Russia&rsquo;s control, initiating the war in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Other objectives of Russia, according to chairman of the Moldova Foundation, are&nbsp;the creation of an enclave (just like Kaliningrad is), subordinated to the Russian Federation and control over Moldova&#8217;s foreign and domestic policy. Vlad Spanu calls the desire of Russian authorities to strengthen the sphere of influence over Ukraine with Moldova&rsquo;s help, and thereby deprive Ukraine of territorial communications with Europe as another Russia&rsquo;s objective in this region.<\/p>\n<p>According to the chairman of the Moldova Foundation,&nbsp;today, the Transnistrian territories are controlled by Russian peacekeepers and local puppet corrupt government. And this local so-called government tramples the basic rights of human in Transnistria, denying young people of their right to receive education in their native language. All this turned into a so-called &quot;School War &quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vlad Spanu supposes, that the talks in &quot;5 +2&quot; format are useless until now and have not had the desired effect and any influence on the situation. The region continues to exist as a &quot;black hole of Europe&quot;,&nbsp;Russian authorities have supported the local separatist regime, and the inhabitants of Transnistria are still suffering from gross violations of their rights up to the illegal arrests of citizens of Moldova, being accused in a so-called treason and betrayal of the Motherland.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in Georgia&rsquo;s Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in Moldova&rsquo;s Transnistria leaders of the separatist regime are Russian citizens and, reportedly, on payroll of the Russian intelligence services and military.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spanu believes that Moldova have no possibility to pay an adequate attention to the inhabitants of the conflict in the region and support them as long as there are well-known political tensions in these areas. Moldova Foundation President noted that Moldova&rsquo;s Western partners &ndash; U.S. and EU &ndash; as well as other mediators like OSCE should offer support, when it comes to providing basic services for residents in Transnistria and should put more pressure on Moldova, for its authorities in their turn to support the citizens trapped in the illegal regime.<\/p>\n<p>As Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow of Jamestown Foundation, added that the territory of Transnistria is the direct source of conflict between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation. The negotiation process is not working so far, Transnistria is a lawless territory, a zone through which Russia is trying to reassert its influence in former Soviet territory. The Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Foundation in Washington says that there must be changed the approach to this conflict and its resolution, which is more like impossible to resolve by today&rsquo;s measures.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to questions, the speakers emphasized the fact that the Moldovan authorities should tighten their attitude towards those who is responsible for the illegal existence of the Transnistrian regime, towards those who perform illegal arrests and other activities on the other side of the Dniester River. Some of these individuals are citizens of the Republic of Moldova, they freely enter and leave its borders and regularly visit Chisinau.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing the need to investigate cases of human trafficking and economic crimes occurred on the territory of Transnistria, Moldovan authorities have come to a standstill. There is no access to these areas because of the Russian peacekeepers and corruption of the self-proclaimed authorities in Transnistria.<\/p>\n<p>The participants of the briefing also added that it is important to attract the attention of Russia&rsquo;s citizens to the fact that some of their tax money&nbsp;go to support the criminal authorities of Transnistria. Why should they be complicit in this?<\/p>\n<p>Briefing speakers proposed to explore the experience of the situation of Northern Ireland in resolving its regional conflicts and to strengthen cooperation with Ukraine in the Transnistrian issue, as an interested participant of the conflict resolution. Moldovan authorities should develop a strategy or a road map on the conflict resolution, because there&rsquo;s none at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Transnistrian region&nbsp;and Moldova&#8217;s main land&nbsp;should be part of one state in which they will be able to reunite their economical potential, tackle corruption. Only that will guarantee their joint prosperous future.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Today the problem of the Transnistrian conflict is a painful one not only for the Republic of Moldova, but also attracts the attention of various international organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Elena Vnorovscaia \/ Chi\u015fin\u0103u \/ Moldova.ORG \/ &#8212; Today the problem of the Transnistrian conflict is a painful one not only for the Republic of Moldova, but also attracts the attention of various international organizations. So today, June 14, 2011, there was held a discussion on theme &ldquo;Prospects for Unfreezing Moldova&rsquo;s Frozen Conflict in Transnistria&rdquo; at Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. Among others in the briefing there participated such speakers as the Honorable Igor Munteanu, Moldovan Ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Mr. <a href=\"http:\/\/foundation.moldova.org\/pages\/eng\/111\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vlad Spanu<\/a>, President of the Moldova Foundation in Washington, D.C., Mr. Lyndon K. Allin, Corporate lawyer based in Washington, D.C. and 2008-2009 IREX US Embassy Policy Specialist in Chisinau. <\/p>\n<p>A recorded video and photos from the event can be viewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/politicom.moldova.org\/page\/live-webstreaming-us-helsinki-commissions-public-briefing-on-moldovas-frozen-conflict-1399-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda were such topics as the respect for human rights in the conflict zone, the responsibility of those who is involved in the political and economic situation in Transnistrian territories as well as some possible solutions and new tactics for the process of reintegration of the Moldovan State.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Honorary Ambassador Igor Munteanu proposed to discuss the following issues: the commitment of villages&rsquo; population of the Eastern Dniester Bank to Moldovan authorities and the denial of human rights and democratic freedoms in the region, local self-proclaimed Tiraspol regime. Mr. Munteanu drew public attention to the fact of closure of schools and orphanages in which the Romanian-speaking children are brought up to the Russification and depriving the local population of any chance to keep and preserve the Latin alphabet script and native language. The Ambassador considers that illegal acts of so-called Transnistrian authorities, kidnapping, arrests, illegal confinement in captivity, Moldovan citizens&rsquo; and Transnistrian residents&rsquo; tortures and the accusations of espionage for their country (per example, Mr. Vardanyan, Cazac cases and others) are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict should be resolved as soon as possible in order to stop discrimination against the indigenous population, the violation and abuse of democratic freedoms and unlawful confinement local inhabitants of Transnistria, as well as tax less export of goods to European markets. Mr. Munteanu considers that there should be developed a system of strict monitoring of borders of the state, a system for the protection of fundamental human rights and implicated the 3-D Program (Demilitarization, Decriminalization and Democratization of the Transnistrian region) in the conflict region. Igor Munteanu believes that there should be withdrawal of Russian troops from areas of political conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In his turn, Mr. Vlad Spanu, President of Moldova to the United States, says that self-proclaimed in 1990-1991 years the so-called Transnistrian authorities are nothing but puppets of the Russian Federation, which meets geopolitics, aimed at restoring its influence in the former Soviet Union. President of Moldova Foundation believes that Moldovan citizens, living nowadays in Transnistrian territories, are held there as hostages in a kind of ghetto, where its residents have no rights or freedoms. Mr. Spanu listed the historical causes of the Russian presence in the region, amongst which are the 1792 &#8211; Treaty of Ia\u0219i, signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, after which Russia, for the first time, reached the Dniester border and became the neighbor of the Principality of Moldova; the 1812 Treaty of Bucharest between the same two actors, resulted in the partition of the Principality of Moldova, the Eastern half of which was incorporated into Russia as Bessarabia until the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; the 1924 creation, within the Soviet Ukraine, of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Republic on the Eastern Bank of Dniester where the majority constituted ethnic Romanian population, as bridge-head to once again successfully occupy Bessarabia in 1940 by the Red Army, as an outcome of the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939. Finally, in 1990-1991, the same territory East of Dniester, with its main city Tiraspol, was once again used by the Kremlin master-minds as an outpost to keep the Soviet Moldova from getting away from USSR&rsquo;s, then, Russia&rsquo;s control, initiating the war in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Other objectives of Russia, according to chairman of the Moldova Foundation, are&nbsp;the creation of an enclave (just like Kaliningrad is), subordinated to the Russian Federation and control over Moldova&#8217;s foreign and domestic policy. Vlad Spanu calls the desire of Russian authorities to strengthen the sphere of influence over Ukraine with Moldova&rsquo;s help, and thereby deprive Ukraine of territorial communications with Europe as another Russia&rsquo;s objective in this region.<\/p>\n<p>According to the chairman of the Moldova Foundation,&nbsp;today, the Transnistrian territories are controlled by Russian peacekeepers and local puppet corrupt government. And this local so-called government tramples the basic rights of human in Transnistria, denying young people of their right to receive education in their native language. All this turned into a so-called &quot;School War &quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vlad Spanu supposes, that the talks in &quot;5 +2&quot; format are useless until now and have not had the desired effect and any influence on the situation. The region continues to exist as a &quot;black hole of Europe&quot;,&nbsp;Russian authorities have supported the local separatist regime, and the inhabitants of Transnistria are still suffering from gross violations of their rights up to the illegal arrests of citizens of Moldova, being accused in a so-called treason and betrayal of the Motherland.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in Georgia&rsquo;s Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in Moldova&rsquo;s Transnistria leaders of the separatist regime are Russian citizens and, reportedly, on payroll of the Russian intelligence services and military.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spanu believes that Moldova have no possibility to pay an adequate attention to the inhabitants of the conflict in the region and support them as long as there are well-known political tensions in these areas. Moldova Foundation President noted that Moldova&rsquo;s Western partners &ndash; U.S. and EU &ndash; as well as other mediators like OSCE should offer support, when it comes to providing basic services for residents in Transnistria and should put more pressure on Moldova, for its authorities in their turn to support the citizens trapped in the illegal regime.<\/p>\n<p>As Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow of Jamestown Foundation, added that the territory of Transnistria is the direct source of conflict between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation. The negotiation process is not working so far, Transnistria is a lawless territory, a zone through which Russia is trying to reassert its influence in former Soviet territory. The Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Foundation in Washington says that there must be changed the approach to this conflict and its resolution, which is more like impossible to resolve by today&rsquo;s measures.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to questions, the speakers emphasized the fact that the Moldovan authorities should tighten their attitude towards those who is responsible for the illegal existence of the Transnistrian regime, towards those who perform illegal arrests and other activities on the other side of the Dniester River. Some of these individuals are citizens of the Republic of Moldova, they freely enter and leave its borders and regularly visit Chisinau.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing the need to investigate cases of human trafficking and economic crimes occurred on the territory of Transnistria, Moldovan authorities have come to a standstill. There is no access to these areas because of the Russian peacekeepers and corruption of the self-proclaimed authorities in Transnistria.<\/p>\n<p>The participants of the briefing also added that it is important to attract the attention of Russia&rsquo;s citizens to the fact that some of their tax money&nbsp;go to support the criminal authorities of Transnistria. Why should they be complicit in this?<\/p>\n<p>Briefing speakers proposed to explore the experience of the situation of Northern Ireland in resolving its regional conflicts and to strengthen cooperation with Ukraine in the Transnistrian issue, as an interested participant of the conflict resolution. Moldovan authorities should develop a strategy or a road map on the conflict resolution, because there&rsquo;s none at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Transnistrian region&nbsp;and Moldova&#8217;s main land&nbsp;should be part of one state in which they will be able to reunite their economical potential, tackle corruption. 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