Joint Control Commission holds meeting in Bender

Chisinau, 6 March /MOLDPRES/ - The Joint Control Commission (JCC) held a meeting in Bender on 5 March, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.

The representative of Russia, Andrey Gorobtsov, who led the meeting, has said that the delegation was still working on a new version on the proposal due to be submitted for the agenda and will allow the consideration of the state of things in the Security Zone, as a result of the presence of illegal “border guards” posts.     

According to the task received at the last meeting, the Joint Military Command reported that it had visited the posts No 9 (left) and No 9 (right) of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, placed on both banks of the Dniester river nearby the Vadul lui Voda settlement and, in a two-week period, it would present to the Commission viable proposals for improving the way these posts are to work, so that the free movement of citizens is not hit.     

The representatives of the OSCE Mission in Moldova informed about the activity of the working group empowered to consider the circumstances which had led to the setting, nearby the Zahorna settlement, of an illegal “border guards” post on the place of the post of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, reduced in 1999. Moldova’s delegation insists on the removal of this post. Given that a blockage was ascertained in taking a decision on this subject, the issue will be discussed at a meeting of the JCC co-heads, with the participation of representatives of Ukraine and OSCE Mission, on 10 March 2020.     

The participants in the meeting approved the report of the Joint Military Command on the situation in the Security Zone for the period 26 February – 3 March, this year.