Moldova's delegation warns about need to observe all decisions by Joint Control Commission

Chisinau, 25 October /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova’s delegation, at a 24 October meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC), continued its efforts to persuade the other JCC members to properly react to the infringements of the Security Zone’s regime, committed by the Transnistrian entities, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported. 

The Russian delegation also reiterated its proposal to check and analyze, on the whole, the situation emerged following the setting of “border guards” posts in the Security Zone. Moreover, the delegation resorted also to additional compromises; yet, Tiraspol’s representatives in the Commission blocked, this time too, the decision-making process of the main body of the peacekeeping mission.   

After long-lasting debates, the agenda was approved without containing the most topical and most discussed subject.  

The Joint Military Command unveiled the report on the situation in the Security Zone for the period 16-22 October 2019, in which two cases discovered by observers in Bender on the setting of pedestrian mobile patrols of “border guards” were reflected. The subject was approached also through the light of many precedents of placing mobile patrols of Transnistrian “border guards” on the Matnev Street from Bender, at the passage to the Varnita village. The head of Russia’s delegation suggested warning the Transnistrian side about the inadmissibility to place mobile patrols in the district with enhanced security regime. Unfortunately, this solution was not accepted either and the taking of the decision on the concerned report was postponed for another meeting.      

The participants in the meeting approved the report of the Joint Military Command for 2-8 October.

At the meeting, while generalizing a string of gaps found out in the work of military observers, Moldova’s delegation warned about the need to observe all the decisions approved since the creation of the peacekeeping mission till present. These decisions complete, in fact, the instruction on the activity of the military observers dating back from 1992 (updated in 2001) and were adopted by the Joint Control Commission during years, in order to improve the mechanism of monitoring the Security Zone, through enhancing the levers of reacting to infringements.    

The delegation of Moldova will insist on this subject in continuation.