Moldova has urged the international community to condemn the plans of the Transnistrian breakaway province in the east to hold a referendum to decide whether to continue negotiations with the Chisinau government or walk alone and bid for international recognition.

The Foreign Ministry said the Moldovan resident representative to the United Nations, Vsevold Grigore, has invited the nations to show their solidarity with his country at a meeting of the U.N. commission for social, humanitarian, and human rights issues.

Chisinau fears that the Tiraspol administration will use this referendum to cement the separation of the eastern region from Moldova.

the moldovan ambassador "underlined the need to ban self-determination as a means of undermining the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity of independent states, which are ruled by legitimate governments and respect the democratic principles and human rights," reads the communication.

On November 4, the supreme soviet in Tiraspol adopted in the first lecture a "foreign policy concept of Transnistria," which seeks the recognition of Transnistria "as full rights subject of international law." Under its terms, Transnistria's would further negotiate with Chisinau under equal conditions.

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