Moldovan Parliament Considering Official Statement on Conflict that Happened at OSCE PA Session

In the nearest time, the Moldovan Parliament will publish its an official Statement about the conflict that took place during the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Session in Washington DC earlier this week.

Moldovan Parliament Chairman Marian Lupu stated at the forum's plenary sitting today that the question needs to be carefully prepared for debate in parliament, so it has to be tackled preliminarily at the nearest meeting of the Parliament's Permanent Bureau meeting.

As was already reported by Infotag, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a Resolution on the Transnistrian issue, having ignored the Moldovan delegation's proposals.

The delegation insisted on introducing into the Resolution a whole number of provisions from the documents, approved by parliament last June 10, concerning the Transnistrian conflict settlement. The documents envisaged, in particular, withdrawal of Russian troops and weapons from Transnistria before the end of this year, attraction of the European Union, United States and Romania to the Transnistria negotiations, democratization and demilitarization of the Transnistrian region with subsequent holding of a parliamentary election there under the international community's strict control.

The Moldovan representatives at the OSCE PA Session felt indignant at seeing such notions in the Resolution as e.g. Transnistrian Supreme Soviet, which, in the Moldovan deputies' opinion, are creating prerequisites for recognition of non-constitutional organs in Tiraspol.

Some parliamentarians pointed out here in private conversations with your correspondent that, most probably, the official Statement to be adopted by the Moldovan Parliament is going to be very tough, and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will be offered to take into account the Republic of Moldova's proposals in the future.