At the same time, according to the head of the foreign policy department, it is also important for a number of Pridnestrovie's economic agents to hold the European markets
The Deputy Prime Minister on the International Cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Minister Nina Shtanski told about the economic background of relations between Pridnestrovie and its European partners on the air of Radio-1.
According to the minister, the Association Agreement between Moldova and the European Union and the Profound and Comprehensive Free Trade Zone Agreement were signed ignoring the Pridnestrovie's interests. Thus, as Nina Shtanski noted, there is a number of the Pridnestrovie's enterprises focusing only on the European market. Change of the EU trade rules may reflect very badly on them.
"The rules were changed in the conditions of the unsettled conflict. Economic problems between Moldova and Pridnestrovie weren't resolved. Then, Moldova unilaterally changes rules of the game having such conditions. Of course, it concerns us seriously, and we're working hard to find the universal mechanism for the predictable cooperation with the Moldavian and European partners which will allow to hold the European markets for the involved enterprises," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.
Thus, according to Nina Shtanski, the situation concerning the considerable dependence of the Pridnestrovie's enterprises on the European markets was created artificially and also through the economic blockade. The head of the Pridnestrovie's foreign policy department considers that the way out from the current situation lays in the redirection to the EU markets.
"I admit that it would be much better for us if our enterprises could redirect their efforts to the Russian market or to the Eurasian Union's one. That would be more predictable in my view. Today, the facts are as follows. They are caused by the both our geographic location and the blockade organized simultaneously by Moldova and Ukraine in 2006 when they simply put us at the disadvantage at the CIS market. This means that our production became so expensive for these markets that we couldn't hold our positions there. In turn, the European Union provided trade preferences to our enterprises, exempted them from payments; and gradually we were redirected to the European market. Of course, someone thought that it would be easier control us. So, we have to face different sanctions and restrictions now," Nina Shtanski commented on the current situation.
However, according to the minister, Pridnestrovie had been enduring a lot of blockades and sanctions for years, but it made our people stronger and drawn our society together.
