Kiev and Moscow share Transdniestria
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005
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Moldova.org - Falls Church, VA, USA
Russia and Ukraine reached agreement to settle the Transdniester conflict. Russian minister of foreign affairs Serghei Lavrov said it yesterday in Ljublijana.
After his meeting with Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs Boris Tarasiuk during
the OSCE reunion ongoing in Ljublijana, Slovenia, the Russian official said: "
Moscow is for the plan drawn by Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko." Lavrov
added: "Russia came up with several practical suggestions to carry out this
plan. We have reached consensus." According to Kommersant Russian daily,
during the reunion in Ljublijana foreign affairs ministers from OSCE states intend
to demand Russia to obey the commitments taken in the OSCE summit in Istanbul
in 1999, when they reached resolution to do away with Russian troops in the Moldovan
Republic and Georgia.
OSCE blocked by Russia
But at the end of last week the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued
press release informing Moscow was definitely against including in the final
document to be reached after the Ljubliajana reunion obligation that Russia
should withdraw troops from the Moldovan Republic and Georgia. Russian officials
pleaded for final declaration on OSCE priorities and on the improvement of the
latter organization.
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