The meeting between the foreign policy department's head and the delegation of the Russian Institute of Strategic Research took place in the Pridnestrovie's MFA
There was noted that many interesting, socially oriented, important and extraordinary projects had been implemented during rather short period of work (the center was opened a year ago in Pridnestrovie).
The Deputy Prime Minister on International Cooperation -the Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski congratulated the staff of the center on its creation anniversary and noted that the Russian institute had cooperated with Pridnestrovie for a long time. "But the Dniester-Prut Center's opening and the joining of our youth to the projects became a new step not only in the Pridnestrovie-RISR cooperation, but also Russia-Pridnestrovie relations in general," she told.
The foreign policy department's head is ready to expand and further cooperation and noted, Pridnestrovie hoped that the border crossing restrictions brought on by the Republic of Moldova will be removed for the RISR staff. "We hope that we will solve this problem through the negotiations after all. We are in close contact with our colleagues from Moldova to remove all movement bans to Pridnestrovie for any representatives of the Russian Institute of Strategic Research," Nina Shtanski emphasized.
In turn, the deputy director of the RISR Tamara Guzenkova noted that the RISR and Pridnestrovie had been connected by close scientific ties for a long time, and when the Dniester-Prut Center had opened, that cooperation had been raised to the whole new level. "Pridnestrovie's center is one of the most important among the other fifteen RISR centers throughout Russia and abroad. It is an outpost from the geopolitical viewpoint. Pridnestrovie has always been such one, and its importance increases nowadays according to the situation developing in this region," she emphasized.
Tamara Guzenkova noted, despite the fact that the Russia's government-funded organizations bear financial difficulties, the RISR Dniester-Prut Center's financing won't be reduced.
