Tiraspol, September, 6. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. PMR Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev said that given the close attention of international partners to the situation with Moldovan banks closing the Pridnestrovian enterprises` accounts, the Moldovan side would not be able to destroy the negotiation context.
“We held consultations with Russian colleagues. Today I met with the head of the OSCE mission. We will continue to work with our partners. Next week there will be a meeting with the political representative of Moldova, where this topic will become one of the central ones,” Ignatiev said.
He emphasized that the banking problem worsened on the eve of holding meetings in the “5 + 2” format, where the parties had to show concrete results in the negotiations.
According to him, the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselski has already sent appeals to the Russian Federation and urged not to allow the escalation of tension.
The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) has been restricting the activities of Pridnestrovian banks since 2002, forcing them out of the financial market of Moldova.
In 2011, at the request of Chisinau, the US Federal Treasury issued a document urging US banks to exercise caution when making payments involving financial institutions of Pridnestrovie. This affected the timing, delay, and sometimes the refusal to conduct operations.
After that, the only way out of the situation was the opening by Pridnestrovian enterprises of direct accounts in banks of Moldova. This was recommended by international mediators in the negotiations on the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian settlement.
Since June 2019, Moldovan banks began to refuse to the PMR enterprises to open accounts. On the eve of September 5, a banking organization in which the accounts of Pridnestrovian economic agents were opened informed them of the blocking of operations.
