Working groups for agriculture, environment consider subjects on Dniester's water resources

Chisinau, 28 March /MOLDPRES/ - A joint meeting of the working groups for agriculture and environmental protection took place at the Chisinau-based headquarters of the OSCE Mission in Moldova today, after a long break. Attending the event were representatives of the mediators and observers in the 5+2 format of talks, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.   

The participants in the event tackled, as a priority, subjects on environment, especially the ones related to water resources of the Dniester river. The discussions were focused on the process of carrying out ecological flows, implementation of the Protocol on cooperation in the sector of fishing management and sustainable use of the water biological resources of the Dniester river, from 15 June 2016, populating the river with small fish, as well as establishing the common period of prohibiting the industrial fishing and the recreation one and agreed on the interval of 15 April – 15 June.    

Experts brought to attention a subject on identifying ways of carrying out measures of sanitation of the Dubasari reservoir, as well as the need to repair the protection dams on certain segments. In the context, the participants in the meeting reiterated the importance of protecting natural ecosystems and discussed prospects for the creation of the Lower Dniester National Park.   

Also, Chisinau’s representatives brought for discussion the issue of ensuring the process of irrigation of the farmlands placed beyond the Rabnita-Tiraspol highways in drought. 

The next meeting of the working groups will be held in Tiraspol.