Transnistrian Conflict on October 6–19, 2003

Mediators’ meeting

The mediators on Transdnistrian conflict gathered in Kiev on October 9–10. Together with OSCE experts they resumed working on the draft political agreement to regulate constitutional bases of the would-be Moldovan federation. The agreement is to be submitted to the two parties in the conflict so as to boost the activity of the Joint Constitutional Commission.

Evacuation of Russian Federation troops and munitions

During his visit to Canada, Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov admitted that Moscow might ask for the extension of the deadline set by OSCE for evacuating its munitions from Transdnistria. According to Ivanov Tiraspol is to be blamed for the delay. Moscow might not resort to force to determine him to be more cooperative. One may only wonder about Moscow’s tolerance with Tiraspol leaders guilty of procrastinating the evacuation, but who once applying for Russian citizenship pledged to unconditionally observe Russian Constitution, laws, and implicitly the international agreements it is part to.

In a related note, on October 9 Christian-Democratic faction in Parliament proffered a draft declaration on the failure of the Russian Federation to comply with the resolutions of the Istambul and Porto OSCE Summits, and insisted on its examination during the plenary session. At the initiative of the Chair of the Parliament the issue was subject to voting, however it failed to gather a majority vote. Nonetheless, the draft declaration was made public at the end of the plenary session and it would be probably reexamined later on by the Parliament.

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Transnistrian Conflict on October 6–19, 2003

Mediators’ meeting

Evacuation of Russian Federation troops and munitions

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