Transnistrian delegation to Joint Control Commission ignores commitment on working out mechanism of monitoring situation in Security Zone

Chisinau, 17 March /MOLDPRES/ - An ordinary meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC), led by the co-head of the Transnistrian delegation, was held in the Bender city on 16 March, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.   

The meeting’s working agenda comprised ten subjects, among which: consideration and approval of a weekly report of the Joint Military Command (CMI) on the situation in the Security Zone; CMI preparing organizational measures to mark the 25th anniversary of the starting of the peacekeeping operations in the Zone, in strict accordance with the provisions of the ceasefire agreement on the principles of peaceful settlement of the armed conflict from the Moldova’s Transnistrian region from 21 July 1992, etc.   

When setting the meeting’s working agenda, the Moldovan delegation repeatedly asked for the introduction of the issue dealing with the elaboration of a mechanism of monitoring the situation in the Security Zone, in line with the item 3 of the official report No 828 of JCC from 13 January 2017.    

Regretfully, both the Transnistrian delegation and the Russian one showed incapacity to hold a constructive dialogue on this subject.    

Unless viable solutions on the good carrying out of JCC’s activity are identified, the Moldovan delegation will insist on the constant maintenance of the subjects of common interest of meetings’ working agenda.   

“At the same time, we describe as a provocation against Moldova’s constitutional authorities the stopping and blocking of an official car of the General Police Inspectorate (IGP), endowed with the peacekeepers’ symbols “MC”, on 16 March this year. Representatives of the Joint Control Commission on behalf of Chisinau were in this car, heading to Bender, where an ordinary meeting of JCC was planned to be held,” reads a press release by the Reintegration Policies Bureau.    

In this way, the employees of the so-called “border guards post” at the entrance into the Bender city glaringly violated the provisions of the articles 3 and 5 of the Agreement from 21 July 1992, the item 4.1 of JCC’s official report No 578 from 22 March 2007, as well as other basic documents in the Commission’s activity.

It is worth mentioning that more similar provocative incidents, which took place at the so-called “Transnistrian control posts” and led to the hindrance of the legal activity of Bender Police Inspectorate’s officers, were documented and registered in the last years.

“In the context of the aforementioned, we recommend that those who fulfill, agree to or order such provocations abstain from committing such abusive actions in the long run. The Moldovan delegation to JCC and other competent bodies will undertake all needed legal measures to ensure the observance of the law on the territory of the state and the safety of Moldova’s citizens and in the Security Zone,” the communiqué issued by the Reintegration Policies Bureau also reads.