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• At the first 2005 meeting of the Permanent Council of the OSCE taking place on 13 January in Vienna, Dimitrij Ruple, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia and Chairman in Office of the OSCE, declared that Slovenia will do its best to facilitate the dialogue between the parties involved in the Transnistrian conflict resolution process, settling regional conflicts being the key priority of the Slovene Chairmanship of the OSCE. According to a Moldovan Foreign Ministry press release, the Moldovan delegation called upon the US and the European Union to get involved more actively in the conflict resolution process and outlined the need for changing the current negotiations mechanism given the worsening of the situation on the left bank of Nistru River. Furthermore, the delegation from Chisinau reminded that the Republic of Moldova never agreed or requested foreign military presence on its territory. Slovenia took over from Bulgaria the Chairmanship of the OSCE at the end of 2004.

• On 1 January entered into effect the Law on the Privatisation of Enterprises from the Transnistrian Region, adopted by the Moldovan Parliament last October. The law cancels the results of the privatisation process carried out by the break away authorities without the consent of the Moldovan Government and provides for passing all Transnistrian enterprises into the ownership of their employees. Despite this, the Transnistrian administration announced that in 2005 it expects to raise from the privatisation of state enterprises about 38.4 million USD, according to Basa-press with reference to Russian media. According to the same sources, 39 companies are to be privatised in 2005, including such well-known ones as the textile factory “Tirotex” and the spirits making factory “Kvint”.
  Thus, on 3 January the Transnistrian official news agency Olvia-press published a press communique whereby the economic department from Tiraspol had announced the privatisation of the Transnistrian railways on grounds that only a private owner could rehabilitate them. The control of the railways was taken over by the Transnistrian authorities last August after the director of the Tighina station signed the necessary documents. The ownership rights over the consequently created enterprise Transnistrian Railways have not been recognised by the Moldovan authorities.
  According to Basa-press, in 2004 the income from the privatisation of enterprises from Transnistria reached 35.1 million USD, of which 29 million USD were obtained from the sale of the electrical Power Plant in Cuciurgan. Observers in Chisinau have indicated that the legislation adopted by the Moldovan Parliament on privatisation in Transnistria will not be possible to apply because the Moldovan authorities do not hold the de facto control of the region.

• The actions of intimidation against people and groups in opposition to the Smirnov regime have continued. After attempts to put on fire the houses of the Transnistria Communist Party leader and of the member of the Tiraspol town council, Nicolai Buceatki, on 9 January a referendum was organised to recall the deputy in the so-called Transnistrian supreme soviet Alexandr Radcenko, who is also Director of the opposition newspaper “Celovek i ego prava” (Person and her rights). The referendum was declared invalid however due to the fact that turnout was lower than the required 25%.
  Earlier the OSCE Mission to Moldova called upon the Transnistrian administration to refrain from pressure on Alexandr Radcenko and declared its concern in relation to the actions of some radical groups and those of the official news agency Olvia-press, which harness public hatred against people that do not share the official views of the Tiraspol administration.

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