Joint Control Commission adopts more compromise decisions

Chisinau, 31 January /MOLDPRES/ - The Joint Control Commission (JCC) members on 30 January assembled at a meeting in Bender, in order to continue considering subjects on the agenda approved last week, the Reintegration Polices Bureau has reported.

In this respect, the participants in the meeting returned to the issue on the abusive setting of a mobile customs checkpoint by the Transnistrian side on the road between the Roghi and Molovata Noua villages on 20 January; Moldova’s delegation insisted that any attempt to hinder the free movement of people and goods in the Security Zone was inadmissible. The compromise proposal, accepted by the other components, has come from the Russian delegation. Thus, the report by the Joint Military Command for the period 15-21 January 2020 was approved with the fixing, in the official report, of the sides’ commitment to unconditionally observe the earlier signed decisions.   

Also, by joint efforts, the participants in the meeting managed to find compromise solutions on another report by the Joint Military Command on the situation in the Security Zone for 13-19 February 2019, which remained in the focus of the Commission during one year. On that period, the military observers of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces documented the exercises abusively held by the Transnistrian power wielding structures in the Bender city, recognized, under the Moldovan-Russian ceasefire agreement from 21 July 1992, as district with enhanced security regime. Thus, at the meeting on 30 January, the Commission members gave the task to the Transnistrian delegation to unveil pertinent information on the infringement stipulated in the report.   

Another five reports by the Joint Military Command, which contain references to cases of illegal setting of mobile “border guards” posts in the Bender city, were left without approval. Moldova’s delegation considers that a decision on them can be taken only in the context of including on the agenda and examining the subject on the verification and analysis, on the whole, of the state of things in the Security Zone, as a result of Tiraspol’s intentions to set a so-called “border” in the area of responsibility of the Joint Peacekeeping Force. It is worth mentioning that the Russian delegation made a compromise proposal on 18 July 2019, backed by Moldova’s delegation, representatives of Ukraine and OSCE Mission in the Joint Control Commission. The Transnistrian side’s opposition makes impossible the initiation of this process and the unlocking of taking of decisions on the concerned reports.    

At the meeting, the Commission instructed that the Joint Military Command organizes an efficient interaction with the servicemen and law-enforcement bodies on aspects dealing with the weaponry, ammunitions and explosive substances discovered and delivered to civilians.