Residents pass by a Soviet-style billboard praising honorary citizens of Tiraspol, the main town of Moldova's separatist Transdniestria region April 17, 2008.
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Russia Unready to Recognize Transdniestria
Russia isn’t ready to recognize independence of Transdniestria. The conflict could be settled by mutual will of Chisinau and Tiraspol, Alexei Ostrovsky, who chairs the State Duma Committee for CIS and Compatriots Ties, announced yesterday, during the meeting with Transdniestria’s President Igor Smirnov, RBC reported.
“We know that 96 percent in your republic spoke for sovereignty and independence. Nevertheless, we realize that key foreign policy players aren’t ready to recognize independence of Transdniestria today. Those are the nations of the EU and the United States,” Ostrovsky pointed out.
First of all, Chisinau and Tiraspol should be willing to sort out the problem, the official emphasized. “Only these two capitals may find a mutually acceptable variant, certainly, with the intermediary efforts of Russia and other states,” Russia’s parliamentarian said.
According to Ostrovsky, he visits Chisinau and Tiraspol in capacity of the chairman of State Duma’s committee to find the way to compromise for attaining some positive result.
The breakaway and unrecognized republic of Moldova, Transdniestria declared independence during the all-nation’s referendums and based on free voting of 1990 through 1991 and confirmed it by the referendums of 1995 and 2006. The standing of Chisinau is that Transdniestria is an integral part of Moldova.
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