{"id":445410,"date":"2018-03-27T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T07:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445410"},"modified":"2018-03-27T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:34:16","slug":"russia-friendly-franco-frattini-seen-scepticism-chisinau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/russia-friendly-franco-frattini-seen-scepticism-chisinau\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Russia-friendly&#8221; Franco Frattini is seen with scepticism at Chi\u0219in\u0103u"},"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\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The OSCE Chairman&#8217;s Special Representative for the Transnistrian conflict settlement, Mr Franco Frattini, is conducting a visit to the Republic of Moldova from 26 to 28 March.<\/p>\n<p>His visit follows the agenda of the Italian Chairmanship of the OSCE. The Italian diplomat is expected to meet with the President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon, PM Pavel Filip and Reintegration Minister Cristina Lesnic, as well as the so-called Executive Coordinator of the Majority Coalition Council, Vlad Plahotniuc. In Tiraspol, Frattini will meet the Transnistrian &#8220;president&#8221; Vadim Krasnoselsky and the Transnistrian &#8220;foreign minister&#8221;, Vitaly Ignatiev. Meetings with the mediators (Ukraine, Russia) and the observers (EU, USA) of the 5+2 format are planned.<\/p>\n<p>The first press conference of Frattini and Lesnic in Chi\u0219in\u0103u is to be held at the Moldovan Government:<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe src=\"\/\/www.privesc.eu\/widget\/live\/80558?\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Former Italian Foreign Minister and a former European Justice Commissioner, Frattini, has built himself a reputation of a friend of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Franco Frattini is even an honorary professor at the\u00a0Diplomatic Academy\u00a0of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This relation with high-profile Russian officials was recognised by Frattini in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko\/420102-ussr-soviet-republics-eu\/\">an RT interview<\/a> as an asset to his mandate within Italy&#8217;s Chairmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his Russian-friendly profile and stance, Frattini is seen with scepticism by the Moldovan civil society. In the same RT interview, he stated that any proposals on changing the peacekeeping mission and the withdrawal of Russian troops are <em>out of reality<\/em>. Instead, he supported Russia&#8217;s &#8220;pragmatic&#8221; approach to the conflict settlement, insisting on finding solutions to &#8220;real-life&#8221; problems, like allowing the Transnistrian cars in the international traffic with neutral number plates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lact.ro\/2018\/02\/27\/andrey-devyatkov-franco-frattini-in-moscow-lifting-the-veil-on-italys-osce-chairmanship-priorities\/\">According to Andrey Devyatkov<\/a>, Frattini will seek in this way to avoid any talks on the political settlement of the Transnistrian conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Frattini&#8217;s ousting of Chi\u0219in\u0103u&#8217;s calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Transnistrian region has raised eyebrows, to say the least, within the Moldovan civil society. The sensible topic of the withdrawal of the Operative Group of Russian Troops is seen as a crucial point in the settlement, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/foreign-minister-ulianovschi-russias-vice-fm-karasin-withdrawal-russian-troops-major-point-advancing-transnistrian-settlement\/\">Chi\u0219in\u0103u arguing<\/a> that Russia has to fulfil its old commitments and pointing at Russia&#8217;s joint exercises with the Transnistrian armed forces. Contrary to the expectation of exercising the role of a neutral mediator, Frattini instead angered people on the right bank of Nistru with his total rejection of talks on the Russian military presence and the potential reform of the peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n<p>Some opinions of the Moldovan civil society leaders, Transnistrian conflict experts and former negotiators were more than harsh towards Frattini:<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Socor, political analyst:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is for the first time when the OSCE is represented in Moldova not by a personality that can be considered weak or doubtful in front of Russia, or does not know the problem, but, in the person of Mr Frattini, an open advocate of the Russian interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of the Republic of Moldova would have to be very polite towards Mr Frattini, to receive him in a diplomatic way, but it should not accept any of his recommendations. Unfortunately, the Government of Moldova last year and the year before accepted the notion of &#8220;small steps&#8221;, notion related to the so-called confidence between the two banks, needed to prepare in the future a political settlement of the conflict, and has accepted also the false dissociation between the Russian troops with peacekeeping status and the Russian troops without a peacekeeping status. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/interviu-cu-vladimir-socor-valentina-ursu\/29091565.html\">Radio Free Europe, 11 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ion Leahu, former Moldovan representative at the Joint Control Commission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Mr Franco Frattini wants to implement those eight points fixed by the Berlin and Vienna protocols. Mr Franco Frattini, do you know that the 5+2 format is not destined for resolving social problems in Transnistria, but it was formed for the conflict settlement process with respect to the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/interviu-ion-leahu\/29090616.html\">Radio Free Europe, 10 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vlad Lupan, former Political Negotiator and ex-Ambassador of Moldova to the UN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I expected that Mr Frattini would first, starting from the basis principles, visit the Republic of Moldova, after which, he would obviously visit other interested countries involved in the 5+2 format, as well as those countries that have influence upon the this conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Mr Frattini, first of all, prefered to go to Moscow and I am afraid that Mr Frattini reiterated the absence of a political will of the Russian Federation in his interview. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/29120381.html\">Radio Free Europe, 24 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Victor Chiril\u0103, director of the Moldovan Association of Foreign Policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even some officials have remarked that Mr Frattini talks through the pointview of Russia, rather than that of the OSCE that he is representing in the 5+2 negotiations format. He said that the withdrawal of Russian troops does not seem realist now to him. But this is not the official position of OSCE, nor the position of Italy that holds the chairmanship of this organization. This declaration raised perplexity, even if in the last 15 years the OSCE talked less about the withdrawal of Russian troops and munitions from the Transnistrian region and this fact is regrettable. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/interviul-diminetii-victor-chirila\/29123609.html\">Radio Free Europe, 26 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Promo-LEX, a human rights monitoring NGO, <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/12046-apel-in-atentia-reprezentantului-special-al-presedintiei-in-exercitiu-a-osce-pentru-procesul-de-reglementare-a-conflictului-transnistrean-dlui-franco-frattini\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched an appeal<\/a> calling Franco Frattini to address the issue of human rights monitoring in the Transnistrian region by deploying an urgent mission, but also to require the OSCE Mission to Moldova to show transparency and inclusiveness in its work.<\/p>\n<p>In his most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/franco-frattini-interviu-reglementarea-trasnistreana\/29089171.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview at Radio Free Europe<\/a>, Frattini has emphasized that the final political settlement will not disadvantage Moldova, but still avoided to push forward the political talks on the negotiation agenda for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Frattini has yet to prove that his agenda is not favouring Russia, but instead to listen to the conflict parties and to address the concerns of Chi\u0219in\u0103u and the Moldovan civil society on the Russian military presence.<\/p>\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\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The OSCE Chairman&#8217;s Special Representative for the Transnistrian conflict settlement, Mr Franco Frattini, is conducting a visit to the Republic of Moldova from 26 to 28 March. His visit follows the agenda of the Italian Chairmanship of the OSCE. The Italian diplomat is expected to meet with the President of the Republic of Moldova Igor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-445410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reintegration","tag-important"],"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\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The OSCE Chairman&#8217;s Special Representative for the Transnistrian conflict settlement, Mr Franco Frattini, is conducting a visit to the Republic of Moldova from 26 to 28 March.<\/p>\n<p>His visit follows the agenda of the Italian Chairmanship of the OSCE. The Italian diplomat is expected to meet with the President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon, PM Pavel Filip and Reintegration Minister Cristina Lesnic, as well as the so-called Executive Coordinator of the Majority Coalition Council, Vlad Plahotniuc. In Tiraspol, Frattini will meet the Transnistrian &#8220;president&#8221; Vadim Krasnoselsky and the Transnistrian &#8220;foreign minister&#8221;, Vitaly Ignatiev. Meetings with the mediators (Ukraine, Russia) and the observers (EU, USA) of the 5+2 format are planned.<\/p>\n<p>The first press conference of Frattini and Lesnic in Chi\u0219in\u0103u is to be held at the Moldovan Government:<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe src=\"\/\/www.privesc.eu\/widget\/live\/80558?\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Former Italian Foreign Minister and a former European Justice Commissioner, Frattini, has built himself a reputation of a friend of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Franco Frattini is even an honorary professor at the\u00a0Diplomatic Academy\u00a0of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This relation with high-profile Russian officials was recognised by Frattini in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko\/420102-ussr-soviet-republics-eu\/\">an RT interview<\/a> as an asset to his mandate within Italy&#8217;s Chairmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his Russian-friendly profile and stance, Frattini is seen with scepticism by the Moldovan civil society. In the same RT interview, he stated that any proposals on changing the peacekeeping mission and the withdrawal of Russian troops are <em>out of reality<\/em>. Instead, he supported Russia&#8217;s &#8220;pragmatic&#8221; approach to the conflict settlement, insisting on finding solutions to &#8220;real-life&#8221; problems, like allowing the Transnistrian cars in the international traffic with neutral number plates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lact.ro\/2018\/02\/27\/andrey-devyatkov-franco-frattini-in-moscow-lifting-the-veil-on-italys-osce-chairmanship-priorities\/\">According to Andrey Devyatkov<\/a>, Frattini will seek in this way to avoid any talks on the political settlement of the Transnistrian conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Frattini&#8217;s ousting of Chi\u0219in\u0103u&#8217;s calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Transnistrian region has raised eyebrows, to say the least, within the Moldovan civil society. The sensible topic of the withdrawal of the Operative Group of Russian Troops is seen as a crucial point in the settlement, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/foreign-minister-ulianovschi-russias-vice-fm-karasin-withdrawal-russian-troops-major-point-advancing-transnistrian-settlement\/\">Chi\u0219in\u0103u arguing<\/a> that Russia has to fulfil its old commitments and pointing at Russia&#8217;s joint exercises with the Transnistrian armed forces. Contrary to the expectation of exercising the role of a neutral mediator, Frattini instead angered people on the right bank of Nistru with his total rejection of talks on the Russian military presence and the potential reform of the peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n<p>Some opinions of the Moldovan civil society leaders, Transnistrian conflict experts and former negotiators were more than harsh towards Frattini:<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Socor, political analyst:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is for the first time when the OSCE is represented in Moldova not by a personality that can be considered weak or doubtful in front of Russia, or does not know the problem, but, in the person of Mr Frattini, an open advocate of the Russian interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of the Republic of Moldova would have to be very polite towards Mr Frattini, to receive him in a diplomatic way, but it should not accept any of his recommendations. Unfortunately, the Government of Moldova last year and the year before accepted the notion of &#8220;small steps&#8221;, notion related to the so-called confidence between the two banks, needed to prepare in the future a political settlement of the conflict, and has accepted also the false dissociation between the Russian troops with peacekeeping status and the Russian troops without a peacekeeping status. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/interviu-cu-vladimir-socor-valentina-ursu\/29091565.html\">Radio Free Europe, 11 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ion Leahu, former Moldovan representative at the Joint Control Commission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Mr Franco Frattini wants to implement those eight points fixed by the Berlin and Vienna protocols. Mr Franco Frattini, do you know that the 5+2 format is not destined for resolving social problems in Transnistria, but it was formed for the conflict settlement process with respect to the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/interviu-ion-leahu\/29090616.html\">Radio Free Europe, 10 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vlad Lupan, former Political Negotiator and ex-Ambassador of Moldova to the UN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I expected that Mr Frattini would first, starting from the basis principles, visit the Republic of Moldova, after which, he would obviously visit other interested countries involved in the 5+2 format, as well as those countries that have influence upon the this conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Mr Frattini, first of all, prefered to go to Moscow and I am afraid that Mr Frattini reiterated the absence of a political will of the Russian Federation in his interview. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/29120381.html\">Radio Free Europe, 24 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Victor Chiril\u0103, director of the Moldovan Association of Foreign Policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even some officials have remarked that Mr Frattini talks through the pointview of Russia, rather than that of the OSCE that he is representing in the 5+2 negotiations format. He said that the withdrawal of Russian troops does not seem realist now to him. But this is not the official position of OSCE, nor the position of Italy that holds the chairmanship of this organization. This declaration raised perplexity, even if in the last 15 years the OSCE talked less about the withdrawal of Russian troops and munitions from the Transnistrian region and this fact is regrettable. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/interviul-diminetii-victor-chirila\/29123609.html\">Radio Free Europe, 26 March 2018<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Promo-LEX, a human rights monitoring NGO, <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/12046-apel-in-atentia-reprezentantului-special-al-presedintiei-in-exercitiu-a-osce-pentru-procesul-de-reglementare-a-conflictului-transnistrean-dlui-franco-frattini\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched an appeal<\/a> calling Franco Frattini to address the issue of human rights monitoring in the Transnistrian region by deploying an urgent mission, but also to require the OSCE Mission to Moldova to show transparency and inclusiveness in its work.<\/p>\n<p>In his most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europalibera.org\/a\/franco-frattini-interviu-reglementarea-trasnistreana\/29089171.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview at Radio Free Europe<\/a>, Frattini has emphasized that the final political settlement will not disadvantage Moldova, but still avoided to push forward the political talks on the negotiation agenda for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Frattini has yet to prove that his agenda is not favouring Russia, but instead to listen to the conflict parties and to address the concerns of Chi\u0219in\u0103u and the Moldovan civil society on the Russian military presence.<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/russia-friendly-franco-frattini-seen-scepticism-chisinau\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moldova.org%2Fen%2Frussia-friendly-franco-frattini-seen-scepticism-chisinau%2F\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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