{"id":445072,"date":"2017-12-28T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445072"},"modified":"2017-12-28T20:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:47:16","slug":"tiraspol-wants-airport-reopened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/tiraspol-wants-airport-reopened\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiraspol wants its airport to be reopened"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The separatist administration of the so-called “Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic” intends to negotiate for the opening of the Tiraspol airport for civil aviation. The information was published by the Russian “Izvestya”<\/a> quoting the separatist “foreign minister”, Vitaly Ignatiev.<\/p>\n

According to Ignatiev, the reopening of the Tiraspol airport fits in the negotiations with Chi\u0219in\u0103u as a topic of social-economic relations. The reopening will allegedly solve the economic problems of the region, stabilize the trade and make the region more “open to the external world”.<\/p>\n

First, it would need the approval of the authorities from Chi\u0219in\u0103u to allow Moldova’s airspace use, and later Ukraine’s approval. The separatist administration relies on the hope that the International Civil Aviation Organization would approve the use of Tiraspol airport, based on its alleged good technical state.<\/p>\n

Answering to Izvestya’s inquiry, the spokesman of the governing Democratic Party of Moldova, Vitalie Gamurari, declared that “Chi\u0219in\u0103u never tried to lock Tiraspol” but always acted based on widely recognized rules. Gamurari emphasized that the Tiraspol airport can be part of the negotiations, but the already agreed solutions<\/a> in the Transnistrian conflict settlement need to be implemented.<\/p>\n

Some experts drew the attention to the fact that the Tiraspol airport is a military one and even has a military training field (more probably used by the Operative Group of Russian Troops) nearby.<\/p>\n