Joint Control Commission considers topical issues in Security Zone

Chisinau, 9 July /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova’s delegation today led a meeting of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) with 17 issues approved on the agenda, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.  

The subject promoted starting from July 2019, which sees making a comprehensive analysis of the present situation in the Security Zone, remained outside the agenda. The reason for the exclusion is that the Transnistrian side did not accept it for discussion. Tiraspol’s representative understand that, if such an analysis is initiated, all infringements they commit in the Security Zone will be revealed, first of all, the presence of the so-called ‘’border guards’’ and creation of artificial obstacles to the free movement. In the context, the Joint Military Command did not present a solution to the unconditional movement of military observers, in order to document the posts illegally set in the Security Zone.        

At an initiative by Moldova’s delegation, the participants in the meeting considered aspects on improving the conditions of exercising the service at the post No 9/left of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, placed nearby Vadul lui Voda. Moldova’s delegation has earlier made a request to take over the administrative duties over the post, so that the authorities have legal ground to finance the necessary works. The Transnistrian side opposed the taking of the decision and tried to politicize the issue. The consultations on this subject will continue.      

As for the observance of the decisions approved and creation of an atmosphere of confidence within JCC, the co-head on behalf of Moldova brought again to attention the events held in Rabnita from 2 July 2020, when the illegal Transnistrian posts massively blocked the citizens’ free movement. The Transnistrian side was asked to give explanations on the reason for non-informing the Joint Control Commission about the fact that, on the day when the daily meeting was held, concentration of forces was taking place in the Security Zone, and including the ‘’special battalion Dnestr’’ was brought, maybe to repress the residents’ revolt. Tiraspol’s representatives left this question answerless.      

In another context, the Joint Military Command informed the Commission that, in the first six months of 2020, 3,527 units of weaponry, ammunitions and explosives had been taken from local residents, in the Security Zone, under the control of military observers. They date back from the World War II or combat actions from 1992 and were delivered for destruction in the way established.    

The participants in the meeting ruled to ask the OSCE Mission in Moldova to consider possibility to back the editing of a collection of acts of JCC on the period 2016-2019, as well as of the Pacificatorul (The Peacekeeper) newspaper.