{"id":443978,"date":"2017-06-14T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=443978"},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:31:16","slug":"transnistria-foreign-minister-accuses-osce-blocking-52-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/transnistria-foreign-minister-accuses-osce-blocking-52-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnistria “foreign minister” accuses OSCE of blocking 5+2 negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

In a recent interview for TASS<\/a>, the so-called foreign minister of the separatist Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR), Vitaly Ignatiev, declared that the OSCE is blocking the 5+2 negotiations by refusing to call a meeting.<\/p>\n

Ignatiev complained that the current Austrian Chairmanship of OSCE is allegedly asking the parties to have\u00a0agreements\u00a0<\/em>to be formalized during the 5+2 format discussions. According to him, the position of OSCE contradicts to the principles of 5+2 format like:\u00a0the meetings should take not less than 6 times a year\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0each party can come up with issues which it considers important.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even the provisions of Berlin protocol<\/a> from June 2016 are not fulfilled, Transnistrian diplomat believes. Moreover, the diplomat suspects that some international observers want to leave Chi\u0219in\u0103u and Tiraspol alone in negotiations:<\/p>\n

“In our opinion, the attempts to abstain from participation from the conflict settlement process and leave the parties face-to-face are counterproductive”<\/em>, says Ignatiev.<\/p>\n

In the same interview, he stated that the recent expulsion of five Russian diplomats<\/a> is just another move of Moldova, with the support of Western partners<\/em>,\u00a0to minimize Russia’s influence in the region, including in the Joint Control Commission.<\/p>\n

Ignatiev also expressed his concern that Moldova’s declarations of replacing the military peacekeeping mission in the Security Area and its joint control with Ukraine at Cuciurgan might escalate to another conflict in the region. He again repeated the claim that Transnistria’s economy would lose 40 million USD every year because of the joint control at Cuciurgan.<\/p>\n

5+2 negotiations regard the talks on the conflict resolution between the separatist authorities of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic and the constitutional authorities of the Republic of Moldova, together with the OSCE, Russia and Ukraine as mediators, and the EU and the US as observers.<\/p>\n

The latest round of the 5+2 talks was held in Bavaria in July 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>In a recent interview for TASS, the so-called foreign minister of the separatist Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR), Vitaly Ignatiev, declared that the OSCE is blocking the 5+2 negotiations by refusing to call a meeting. Ignatiev complained that the current Austrian Chairmanship of OSCE is allegedly asking the parties to have\u00a0agreements\u00a0to be formalized during the 5+2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":443979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reintegration"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

In a recent interview for TASS<\/a>, the so-called foreign minister of the separatist Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR), Vitaly Ignatiev, declared that the OSCE is blocking the 5+2 negotiations by refusing to call a meeting.<\/p>\n

Ignatiev complained that the current Austrian Chairmanship of OSCE is allegedly asking the parties to have\u00a0agreements\u00a0<\/em>to be formalized during the 5+2 format discussions. According to him, the position of OSCE contradicts to the principles of 5+2 format like:\u00a0the meetings should take not less than 6 times a year\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0each party can come up with issues which it considers important.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even the provisions of Berlin protocol<\/a> from June 2016 are not fulfilled, Transnistrian diplomat believes. Moreover, the diplomat suspects that some international observers want to leave Chi\u0219in\u0103u and Tiraspol alone in negotiations:<\/p>\n

“In our opinion, the attempts to abstain from participation from the conflict settlement process and leave the parties face-to-face are counterproductive”<\/em>, says Ignatiev.<\/p>\n

In the same interview, he stated that the recent expulsion of five Russian diplomats<\/a> is just another move of Moldova, with the support of Western partners<\/em>,\u00a0to minimize Russia’s influence in the region, including in the Joint Control Commission.<\/p>\n

Ignatiev also expressed his concern that Moldova’s declarations of replacing the military peacekeeping mission in the Security Area and its joint control with Ukraine at Cuciurgan might escalate to another conflict in the region. He again repeated the claim that Transnistria’s economy would lose 40 million USD every year because of the joint control at Cuciurgan.<\/p>\n

5+2 negotiations regard the talks on the conflict resolution between the separatist authorities of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic and the constitutional authorities of the Republic of Moldova, together with the OSCE, Russia and Ukraine as mediators, and the EU and the US as observers.<\/p>\n

The latest round of the 5+2 talks was held in Bavaria in July 2016.<\/p>\n

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