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Efforts to resume the negotiations in the “5+2” format

On 26 January in Madrid took place a new round of consultation of mediators and observers in the Transnistrian settlement process at which they discussed the prospects of resumption of the negotiation process with the OSCE Chairman in Office, Spanish Foreign Ministry, Miguel Anhel Moratines. As a result of the consultations, the mediators and observers signed a common protocol in which they called for the resumption of talks on Transnistria. “The sides reiterated their readiness to contribute to the peaceful settlement of the Transnistrian problem respecting the territorial reintegration of the Republic of Moldova and the development of a special status for Transnistria”, the document says. The mediators and observers sent the leaders in Tiraspol and Chisinau an address in which they proposed to resume the talks in the “5+2” format in February 2007.

Asked by the news agency “Novyi Region” about the agenda of discussions in Madrid on the eve of the meeting, EU Special Representative for Moldova, Adriaan Jakobovits de Szeged, said that the lack of negotiations is a negative thing and regretted the fact that the Transnistrian side put forward a series of conditions for its comeback to the negotiations table. According to the European diplomat, after the transit of goods and the resumption of railway passenger transportation, all obstacles for the resumption of talks on the main issue — Transnistria’s status, have been removed.

In January the Minister of Reintegration, Vasile Sova, and the presidential advisor on internal policy, Mark Tkaciuk, continued consultations on the Transnistrian issue with the mediator states. On 18 January they visited Moscow where they continued to examine a large spectre of issues related to the Transnistrian problem on the basis of agreements reached during their visits to Moscow in late 2006. After the consultations in Moscow, the two Moldovan officials went to Kyiv, where they had meetings at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the National Security and Defence Council.

The European Commission approved a new project at the Moldovan-Ukrainian border

The European Commission allocated 9 million Euro for a new project of technical assistance at the Moldovan-Ukrainian border. The project is entitled “Improving the border control at the Moldovan-Ukrainian border” (BOMMOLUK) and will be implemented until 2010. The project was drafted within 12 working groups set up by the Consultative Council of the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in February 2006. They prepared draft project proposals in the following fields:

• Developing a system of risk assessment by the Moldovan and Ukrainian customs and border services;
• Developing an integrated system of border management;
• Technical assistance, equipment and infrastructure for customs and border services;
• Exchange of information between the relevant services of the two states;
• Developing a joint training course for the personnel from the joint check points.

We would like to remind that on 21 November 2006 in Brussels, Moldova and Ukraine signed an agreement on the exchange of information regarding the transit of goods and people across the Moldovan-Ukrainian border. The agreement was signed as a result of the trilateral EU-Moldova-Ukraine meeting on border issues in Brussels and the cooperation of the two states with the EUBAM. According to the agreement, the Moldovan and Ukrainian border guards will exchange information at national, regional and detachment levels, on the basis of which they will draft monthly reports on border security which will be presented at the monthly EUBAM coordination meetings.

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