The Deputy Prime Minister on the International Cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Minister: “The successful settlement of the Moldova-Pridnestrovie conflict can become a basis for the universal approach to the identity conflicts"
The Deputy Prime Minister on the International Cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Minister Nina Shtanski notes in her article that the key point of the Moldova-Pridnestrovie conflict is that it’s impossible to mark out only the interethnic or interreligious inconsistence as the radical reasons which had triggered the armed conflict.
“The multiangled structure of this conflict caused by various national identities of the population complicate the reconciliation process,” the head of the MFA emphasizes.
Nina Shtanski notes that one of the critical problems blocking the negotiations efficiency is caused by the parties’ different treatment to the possible compromises.
According to Nina Shtanski, the pressing policy towards Pridnestrovie influences on the negotiation process throughout all the reconciliation process most destructively.
“The unilateral closure measures, the pressure and coercive policy (the economic blockade, the so called “Mobile Telecommunications War”, the visa revocation) and sanctions don't solve the political settlement problem, but result in the negotiation degradation between the conflicting parties and to the countries’ external isolation,” the author writes.
In conclusion, Nina Shtanski notes that it is obviously important to study the Moldava-Pridnestrovie collision, specified by the inextricable connection of the political and interethnic components, for the effective approaches development settling the identity conflicts that cannot be resolved by the classical means.
“Successful settlement of the Moldava-Pridnestrovie conflict, cranking up tensions between Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the EU apart from the internal downward dynamics, can become a serious example of the political settlement which could be taken as the universal approach basis for the identity conflicts including ethnic and frozen ones,” the author concludes.
You can read the full article on the Pridnestrovie’s Foreign Affairs Ministry official website.
