{"id":442899,"date":"2016-11-05T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=442899"},"modified":"2016-11-12T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T11:31:43","slug":"moldova-ukraine-defense-ministers-agree-make-green-corridor-russian-troops-leave-transnistria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-ukraine-defense-ministers-agree-make-green-corridor-russian-troops-leave-transnistria\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova and Ukraine Defense Ministers agree to make a “green corridor” for Russian troops to leave Transnistria"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The Defense Minister of Moldova, Anatol \u0218alaru, and the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Stepan Poltorak, today came to an agreement to prepare a “green corridor” for the withdrawal of the Russian troops and munitions from Transnistria.<\/p>\n

Asked by Deschide.MD<\/a>, \u0218alaru declared that the plan of withdrawing the munitions from Colbasna and the special Russian troops from Transnistria would be finished until the end of 2016. <\/p>\n

“We discussed on the creation of a special corridor for the Russian military located in the Transnistrian region and for the munitions and weaponry stored at Colbasna. I was officially informed that the Ukrainian party is ready to prepare a corridor for the evacuation of Russian army and weaponry. We established that we would send our specialists in Ukraine to elaborate the technical part: to examine the exits from the Republic of Moldova, entrances to Ukraine, the ways for circulation. Then we would inform OSCE, because we want this mission to be under the rule of OSCE and UN. Until the end of the year, we will have another official meeting to finish the discussion and approve the stages of the evacuation operation of the weaponry from the Transnistrian region. We will ask the international institutions to make pressure on Russia to withdraw its army and munitions. We can offer all the ways: maritime, terrestrial and airspace”<\/em>, declared \u0218alaru for Deschide.<\/p>\n

\u0218alaru specified that Moldova would not have any expenditures, while a degrading part of the munitions will be destroyed with the financial and material help of the US and OSCE.<\/p>\n

\u0218alaru with Ukrainian Defense Minister, Stepan Poltorak, and the head of the Ukrainian diaspora in Moldova, Mihail Bagas, at Odessa:
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