Int'l participants in Transdniestrian settlement to hold consultations in Chisinau, Tiraspol for two days
CHISINAU. April 5 (Interfax) - The participants of the 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement will hold consultations in Chisinau and Tiraspol for two days, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) permanent mission in Moldova told Interfax on Tuesday.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Special Representative Cord Hinrich Meier-Klodt, Russian and Ukrainian representatives in the negotiating process Sergei Gubarev and Valery Zhovtenko, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bridget Brink and head of the European Union delegation to Chisinau Pirkka Tapiola will participate in the talks.
They will meet with the Moldovan parliamentary speaker and the prime minister, the Transdniestrian leader, main negotiators from Chisinau and Tiraspol Gheorghe Balan and Vitaly Ignatyev.
The consultations are expected to result in an essential agreement to resume the 5+2 permanent talks. Chisinau and Tiraspol have earlier spoken in favor of this decision.
At the talks in Moscow on Monday, Russian and Moldovan foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and Andrei Galbur also supported the resumption of the talks.
The 5+2 talks were initiated in 2006, but were interrupted a year later. In 2012, they were resumed, the rounds of talks were held once in two months. In 2014, the talks were interrupted again.
