Moldovan Joint Control Commission's activity blocked by Transnistrian delegation

Chisinau, 30 June /MOLDPRES/ – On 29 June 2017, a joint meeting of the Joint Control Commission (CUC) was held in Bender, which was chaired by the Russian delegation. There were reviewed 9 topics at it, the office for reintegration policies’ press service has reported.

At the beginning of the meeting, Colonel Nicolai Nikonov, Chief of the Supreme Military Head of the Transnistrian region's peacekeepers' contingent, at the request of Russian co-president Evghenii Vereshceaga, informed the assistant about the incident of 28 June 2017 from post no. 7 near the Dubasari hydropower plant, namely the suicide case of a Transnistrian peacekeeper with the weapon. The investigating authorities started an investigation in this case and then inform the CUC.

The proposals of the Moldovan delegation on the CUC's agenda, first of all on the mechanism for monitoring the situation in the Security Zone (ZS), provided for by the Commission's decision of 13 January 2017, and measures to ensure total military transparency in the ZS in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement of 21 July 1992, and this time were ignored by the Transnistrian representatives.

With reference to this situation, it is worth mentioning the deliberately-ostentatious position of the Transnistrian delegation, which is observed in the majority of the topical issues on the agenda.

In connection with the end of his mission, Evghenii Vereshceaga, the head of the Russian Federation delegation to CUC, broadcast the request of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Moldova Farid Muhametshin, who asked for the consideration of the appointment of a new co-chairman from the Russian Federation in CUC, the organizational issues and reports of the Joint Military Command to be examined during the CUC’s extraordinary meetings. The Moldovan delegation agreed with that proposal.

It should also be noted that, at the request of the Russian delegation, most of the subjects on the agenda discussed at the meeting on 29 June were transferred to subsequent meetings.