New round Transdniestrian settlement talks in 5+2 format to take place in Rome

15:15 | 28.05.2018 Category: Political

Chisinau, 28 May /MOLDPRES/ - A meeting of the Transdniestrian settlement talks in the 5+2 format will take place in Rome on 29 and 30 May 2018. The talks will be hosted by Franco Frattini, the Special Representative of the Italian Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process.

The meeting, officially known as the “Permanent Conference for Political Questions in the Framework of the Negotiating Process on the Transdniestrian Settlement in the 5+2 format”, will bring together representatives of the Sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations – Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine as well as the European Union and the United States.

The 5+2 meeting will review the status of the implementation of the six agreements signed by the Sides in November 2017 and April 2018, establish timelines for the implementation of the remaining priorities from the “package of eight” identified by the Sides, and outline new priorities to further advance the settlement process.

The last round negotiations in 5+2 format took place in Vienna, Austria, in November 2017.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor L. Alcaza)

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