Tiraspol, 27 April. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The Supreme Council has responded to the information disseminated in the Odnoklassniki social network and in some other Internet resources that the parliament had begun a discussion of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Pridnestrovie.
The chair of the Supreme Council, Vadim Krasnoselsky, has made a statement refuting this "explicitly anti-state and destructive information" and urged the Committee for State Security (KGB) to bring rumour-mongers to account.
"Pridnestrovie's peacekeeping operation has been the world's most successful and efficient peacekeeping operation in the past decades," said Vadim Krasnoselsky.
People's deputy Oleg Belyakov, who is Pridnestrovie's co-chair to the Joint Control Commission (the governing body of the peacekeeping operation), has said that such inaccurate information may aim at reformatting or even abolishing the peacekeeping operation, which may jeopardise the safety of Pridnestrovian citizens.
"We realise that for the Pridnestrovian people this means merely physical safety, order on our borders and inside the country, peace and creativity," underscores the parliamentarian.
Vadim Krasnoselsky has argued that withdrawing Russian peacekeepers from the PMR might lead to the resumption of the armed conflict between Moldova and Pridnestrovie and questioning "the vital importance of Russia's peacekeeping mission in the Dniester region" is already a crime.
In this connection, the parliament's statement proposes to introduce criminal responsibility for such an act.
People's deputy Oleg Khorzhan has called on MPs to give broader consideration to this issue. According to him, any libel in the Internet and not only statements about Russian peacekeepers must incur criminal responsibility.
