Tiraspol representatives maintain confrontation-oriented dialogue within Joint Control Commission
15:41 | 09.06.2017 Category: Official
Chisinau, 9 June /MOLDPRES/ - An ordinary meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC), chaired by the Russian delegation, was held in Bender city on 8 June. The participants in the event tackled ten subjects, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.
At the meeting, Moldova’s delegation reiterated the need to include on the agenda the topic on measures due to be undertaken to ensure full military transparency in the Security Zone (ZS), in line with the provisions of the Ceasefire Agreement from 21 July 1992. In the context, Tiraspol representatives in JCC expressed disagreement as to the approach of the aforementioned subject.
“Regretfully, we should ascertain, this time again, the non-constrictive position of the Transnistrian delegation, which resorted to different interpretations lacking logic on proposals to settle topical issues on the agenda and showed itself through confrontation-oriented approaches,” reads a press release issued by the Reintegration Policies Bureau.
At a proposal by Russia’s delegation, Pyotr Urzhumov was confirmed in the position of JCC member; Urzhumov presently holds the office of senior adviser at the Russian Embassy in Moldova. Concomitantly, the Commission members dismissed from office colonel Igor Dovbnya, lieutenant colonel Aleksandr Grudin and major Dmitry Rayevski, former members of Russia’s delegation, given the end of the mission term.
The representatives of Ukraine in JCC and of the OSCE Mission in Moldova informed about the activity of the working groups in charge of considering the situation of the posts placed in the Security Zone and of maintaining the law and order. In this respect, JCC agreed that the groups would resume working after a new representative of Russia is appointed as member of these groups.
Other up-to-date matters have been postponed for the next JCC meeting.