Joint Control Commission holds first meeting from 2019
15:00 | 11.01.2019 Category: Official
Chisinau, 11 January /MOLDPRES/ The Joint Control Commission, at its meeting from 10 January, focused its discussions on proposals by the Moldovan delegation to work out a mechanism of monitoring the Security Zone, in line with the commitments taken based on a protocol signed in January 2017, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.
The Tiraspol representatives’ refusal to access this measure triggered hot disputes between the participants. The arguments presented by Moldova’s delegation, backed representatives of Ukraine, would remove the deficiencies signaled earlier and would ensure the non-admission of incidents in the Security Zone.
Also, a proposal by the Moldovan delegation to involve the OSCE Mission in elaborating such a mechanism of monitoring was turned down too.
At the same time, the participants in the meeting tackled the activity of the military observers and their reports, especially the refusals to sign contracts which do not objectively cover the infringements committed in the Security Zone.
Moldova’s delegation reiterated that such situations were triggered by the lack of a distinct regulation of the Joint Military Command. As arguments, the Moldovan delegation unveiled cases when some military exercises held in the Security Zone and made public including on official sites, are not contained in reports by the military observers (which prompted Moldova’s military representatives not to approve such incomplete draft acts).
Moldova’s delegation referred to the long term, during which the sides had not been able to reach consensus on some important subjects.
At the same meeting, the Commission heard military commanders on the evolution of the aspects they are in charge of, approved reports by the Joint Military Command for the periods 19-25 December 2018, 26 December 2018 – 1 January 2019, 2-8 January 2019, as well as a plan of priority measures of the military contingents of the joint peacekeeping forces for 2019.
The Joint Control Commission will hold its next meeting on 17 January.
