Moldova to Rejoin the Joint Control Commission
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Friday, 05 May 2006
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Moldova is planning to rejoin the Joint Control Commission that is responsible for maintaining security along the buffer zone around the border of Transdniestria.
The Moldovan commission co-chairman, Ivan Solonenko, said that his country??s reason for rejoining was because ?since otherwise the peace process will be null, as taken from a report by the RIA Novosti news agency.
Transdniestria, a thin strip of land in eastern Moldova between the Dniestr River and the Ukrainian border, is internationally considered to be part of the Republic of Moldova, and previously part of the Moldavian SSR. The region declared its independence in 1990 as the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica or Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), with Tiraspol as its capital, fearing that Moldova, at the time a Romanian-speaking republic of the Soviet Union, would reunite with Romania.
The Joint Control Commission came about when Russian peacekeeping troops were deployed to the area in 1992. Moldova abandoned friendly terms with the JCC a year ago after a disagreement regarding the village of Dorotskoye, which has farmland inside the territory of Transdniestria.
The Russian ambassador at large, Valery Nesterushkin, assures Moldova that the Transdniestrian authorities recognize Moldova's jurisdiction over the disputed land, so there was no longer any reason why Moldova should not rejoin the Joint Control Commission meetings.
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