Tiraspol, September 25. / Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The President of the PMR Vadim Krasnoselsky and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev met the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots Konstantin Zatulin. It should be reminded that the Pridnestrovian delegation headed by the President is on a working visit in Moscow.
Vadim Krasnoselsky expressed gratitude to Konstantin Zatulin for the cooperation aimed at strengthening and developing Pridnestrovian-Russian relations, the Head of the state press service reports.
«At any opportunity, we try to remind that we have obligations – if not legal, then human, moral – towards Pridnestrovie. Many times you have shown the intention to be together with Russia. Russia remembers it, and the Russian people know about it. Though Pridnestrovie is separated from Russia by borders, it is not separated from us properly. We are on the same side», – Konstantin Zatulin emphasized.
The parties interest in a constant constructive dialogue is due to the fact that 220 thousand Russian citizens live in Pridnestrovie. According to Vadim Krasnoselsky, 150 thousand Pridnestrovians have reason and for the most part, desire to acquire Russian citizenship, but due to circumstances they were forced to obtain other states passports – Ukraine and Moldova. The solution to this problem is one of the priority tasks today. Work in this direction is underway.
«This question is more humanitarian. It is not fair to accuse the pridnestrovians having any other citizenship. The responsibility lies on those who disorganized the Soviet Union and allowed such a situation. People were forced to adapt. Now the time has changed, it is also necessary to make new decisions. It would be fair in relation to our people. The pridnestrovians wait for it», – Vadim Krasnoselsky noted.
Another traditional topic for discussion within the walls of the State Duma, raised by the Pridnestrovian leadership, was the possibility of using maternal capital in the republic. Vadim Krasnoselsky stressed, that the option of use the capital funds for education in the PMR universities, proposed by the Pridnestrovian side, was absolutely transparent and controlled. There are proposals related to this money allocation to the affordable housing construction.
Vadim Krasnoselsky and Konstantin Zatulin spoke also about health insurance policies. They discussed a possible mechanism by which Pridnestrovian Russians could use the corresponding certificates legally. Vadim Krasnoselsky gave a number of specific examples when the medical assistance to Pridnestrovians who lived in Russia was possible only with the Pridnestrovian Official Representative in Moscow participation.
The meeting participants exchanged views on gas supplies, talked about the negotiation process course between Pridnestrovie and Moldova, and discussed various aspects of the Pridnestrovian-Russian interaction.
