Tiraspol, February 17. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The previous day, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Moldovan European Integration Ministry urged on diplomats, who accredited in Moldova to desist from the PMR events attending.
“Moscow was received instruction that it’s not allowed to attend Pridnestrovian territory: neither walk, nor fly, neither travel nor even interact with the unrecognized republic representatives by the video conferencing meeting. Thereupon, the Russian Ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov remotely participated in the Pridnestrovian foreign-policy establishment collegium and congratulated its employees on the Day of State Department official. After this he was invited to the Moldovan Foreign Ministry,” the Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes.
However, Moldovan unionists (political movement Unirea, which includes four political parties), advocating incorporation with Romania, considered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration comment insufficient and demanded that the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Chisinau was declared by the foreign-policy establishment persona non grata.
It should be reminded: on February 10, the meeting of the PMR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Collegium was held, which was traditionally correlated with the Day of State Department official. The collegium participants were greeted by the Russian Federation Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova Oleg Vasnetsov. He touched on the peacekeeping theme as well as the situation in the Security Zone and expressed hope for the intensification of negotiation process between Pridnestrovie and Moldova. Moreover, Oleg Vasnetsov noted “an active cooperation between Russia and Pridnestrovie in the framework of solving problems of Russian compatriots in the PMR” and promised to work upon this direction strengthening,” expanding the humanitarian interaction spectrum.”
