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The next week's ordinary round of the Transnistrian settlement negotiations yielded no results, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Ambassador William Hill stated on Friday/Saturday midnight. In his words, the talk participants failed to reach an agreement on even a single question on the agenda.
That round of talks began last Thursday in Tiraspol and continued in Chisinau on Friday. It was expected that the session would end at about 4 pm on Friday. However, the participants remained at the table until midnight. It was the second round held in a new format, 5+2, after two observers - the European Union and the United States - had joined the settlement efforts at the previous round. Their jointing the conflict settlement work enabled the resumption of the negotiation process after a 1.5-year-long pause. The last week's round involved Moldovan Minister of Country Reintegration Vasile Sova, Transnistrian minister of foreign affairs Valery Litkai, Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Ambassador William Hill, Russian Federation's Representative at the Transnistrian conflict negotiations, Ambassador-at-Large Valery Nesteroushkin, Ukrainian President's Representative at the Transnistrian conflict negotiations, Ambassador-at-Large Dmitry Tkach, the European Union's Special Representative for Moldova Adriaan Jacobovits de Szeged, and Ambassador Steven R. Mann, Senior Advisor for Eurasia at the U.S. Department of State. At the Friday midnight news conference, William Hill voiced disappointment, saying the negotiations were very hard, and he disliked their results, for "we expected more from the talks". According to him, the negotiators managed to discuss all the 6 questions on the round agenda, but no decision was attained on either of them. The parties discussed issues pertaining to the OSCE assessment mission for preparation to elections in Transnistria, demilitarization, measures to consolidate trust and security, monitoring of Transnistrian military-industrial complex enterprises, situation in the Transnistria Security Zone, the 2006 schedule of work in the 5+2 format. Ambassador Hill said that a decision was achieved to continue the discussion of the above questions at the next round of talks scheduled for January 26-27 in Tiraspol and Chisinau. - Infotag
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