{"id":444165,"date":"2017-07-30T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=444165"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:56:08","slug":"peacekeeping-mission-transnistria-turns-25-russia-ambassador-ending-mission-lead-another-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/peacekeeping-mission-transnistria-turns-25-russia-ambassador-ending-mission-lead-another-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacekeeping mission in Transnistria turns 25, Russia Ambassador: Ending this mission would lead to another conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

On July 29th, the peacekeeping mission on Nistru banks turned 25 years since its foundation in 1992. The event was celebrated only by the Transnistrian leaders and the Russian Ambassador in Moldova, since the Russian delegation led by Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin was banned from entering<\/a> Moldova through Ukraine or Romania and the Moldovan President Igor Dodon canceled his visit.<\/p>\n

After handing some 40 medals over to the Russian peacekeeping forces, Transnistrian leader Vadim Krasnoselsky declared for the press that he is concerned about the initiative of the Moldovan government to replace the current military mission with an international one:<\/p>\n

“…it all leads to the escalation of the conflict and to possible battle actions, including by introducing checkpoints on the Ukrainian territory”,\u00a0<\/em>said Krasnoselsky. He later added that a meeting with President Dodon is scheduled for later, reports novostipmr.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

In his turn, the Russian Ambassador, H.E. Farit Muhametshin, expressed concern about the recent critique of the Moldovan leadership towards the peacekeeping mission:<\/p>\n

“We consider unfounded and unacceptable the plans and actions of the Moldovan authorities directed at ending the peacekeeping mission of Russia in Transnistria. This is a path for a new emerging conflict on Nistru, that would pull Russia in a new source of pressure. I am sure that the Russian peacekeepers will fulfill till the end their peacekeeping mission” <\/em>said Muhametshin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Moldovan peacekeepers and the Moldovan delegation in the Joint Control Commission did not participate at the celebration event because no joint celebration plan was agreed upon.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t