State Department: US ready to render assistance to Transnistria
Vladimir Sandutsa. Zam. assistant Secretary of state United States Bridget brink said on the last working day of the week in Tiraspol on the readiness of the capital of the USA to render assistance to Transnistria, said the press service of the foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Republic.
"I came to hear what problems and challenges you face and how can the US have the opportunity to help," said brink at the meeting with Acting Head of foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev.
during the meeting were discussed wide range of issues that constitute the current agenda of normalization of relations between the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and Moldova. The Commissioner of the state Department of the United States expressed interest in the objective study of the current situation in Transnistria.
Ignatiev tried to convince the American partners to facilitate the closing in Moldova politically motivated criminal cases concerning the Inhabitants of Transnistria, the Transnistrian release of a policeman Maxim Victor. Special emphasis was made on the need to abolish the Moldovan authorities ban on the crossing of international borders by vehicles registered in Transnistria. Review Ignatiev, it is necessary to work in the economy and to create rules to restore confidence between Chisinau and Tiraspol.
Transnistria, 60% of whose citizens are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the destruction of the USSR, fearing that on the wave of nationalism Moldova will join Romania. In 1992, after the failed attempt of the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact not controlled by the Chisinau area.
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