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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he saw "good
chances" for solving the long-standing problem of Moldova’s breakaway
region of Transdniestr, news agencies reported.
"It’s reasonable to discuss already
today the Transdniestr problem. I see good chances for solving it,"
Medvedev told Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin at a meeting at the
Russian leaders Black Sea coastal residence at Sochi.
Medvedev said the problem of Transdniestr, which lies on Moldova’s eastern edge adjoining Ukraine, should be viewed in the context of this month’s battle between Russia and Georgia over the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia.
Events in South Ossetia
showed "how dangerous such so-called frozen conflicts can be, given
that the Georgian leadership, as they say, went crazy," Medvedev said,
quoted by Interfax.
"This is a serious warning for us all.
It is in this context that we should view the question of Transdniestr
resolution," the Russian leader said.
Transdniestr fought a brief independence war after the Soviet Union’s collapse but is not internationally recognized.
It hosts a contingent of Russian troops and a Soviet-era arms dump.
Russia and Moldova have claimed to be inching towards a solution, in which Moscow hopes Moldova will permanently renounce any ambition to join NATO.
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