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UN:
MULTINATIONAL MISSION NEEDED FOR BREAKAWAY REGION IN MOLDOVA, OFFICIAL
TELLS UN:
01/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 01 October 2007 –
A multinational civil mission with an
international mandate is needed to resolve the separatist conflict in Moldova’s
Transdniestrian region, the country’s Foreign Minister told the General
Assembly today.
Speaking
at the annual high-level debate, Andrei Stratan said the “conflict remains a
continuous obstacle in promoting reforms and ensuring social and economic
development of our country.”
Transdniestria
has been a breakaway region on Moldova’s eastern flank following fighting
between Moldovan and separatist forces in the early 1990s, when the country
gained its independence.
Mr.
Stratan said the negotiation process has remained stalled since April last year
“because of the rigid and non-constructive position of the separatist leaders
supported from outside of Moldova,” adding that “this is serving as a screen
for promoting some political and mafia interests foreign to the people of this
region.”
He said
“continuous violation of the fundamental human rights in the Transdniestrian
region and the inefficiency of the existing peacekeeping mechanism” meant a
multinational civil mission with an international mandate was necessary.
Mr.
Stratan also reiterated Moldova’s view that the Russian troops remaining on
Moldovan territory must withdraw, according to obligations assumed in a 1999
agreement, to “create the necessary premises for ratifying and applying the
Adapted Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty.”
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