Tiraspol, June 24. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The Pridnestrovian delegation to the Joint Control Commission proposed to hold an emergency JCC meeting and discuss the situation in the Security Zone.
The previous day, a group of nationalists from Moldova arranged a provocation at the Pridnestrovian border point in the village of Varnitsa. They demanded to let them go to Bendery and Tiraspol to agitate the ideas of unification with Romania. The provocateurs unfurled the Romanian flags and played the national anthem. They shouted that there was no such state as Pridnestrovie, demanded the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers, shouted anti-Russian slogans, demanding the annexation of Pridnestrovie to Moldova, Romania and NATO.
The provocateurs called the Pridnestrovian border guards “barbarians”, “bandits”, “mercenaries” and created a conflict situation. At the same time, they called the police and demanded that the Moldovan authorities intervene.
The nationalists spent the night at the border, setting up tents at the checkpoint. They only left around midday this afternoon. One of the organizers of the provocation described what was happening as "a battle, in which a great victory was won."
An attempt to organize a similar provocation took place upon entry to Rybnitsa several days earlier.
At the end of the 80s of the last century, it was the nationalists of Moldova who provoked the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian conflict, and then the aggression of Moldova against Pridnestrovie.
The Co-Chairman of the JCC from Pridnestrovie, Oleg Belyakov, called these provocations an attempt to destabilize the situation in the Security Zone.
“We see that certain forces in the Republic of Moldova are trying to destabilize the situation in the Security Zone. A bus arrived at the Varnitsa-Bendery checkpoint, from which some citizens got out, dressed in appropriate uniforms with appropriate flags and organized the overlap of the checkpoint, arranged opposition to those law enforcement agencies who serve there, that is, actually, they arranged civil unrest", Oleg Belyakov said.
According to him, the Pridnestrovian delegation insisted on sending military observers to the point of conflict, according to the documents that determine actions in case of incidents between the parties to the conflict. At the same time, the Moldovan side turned down the Pridnestrovian offer.
The Joint Control Commission is the body that ensures the peacekeeping operation functionality. It includes representatives of the parties to the conflict - Moldova and Pridnestrovie; Russia, under whose auspices the operation is taking place; Ukraine, which joined the operation as an observer. All decisions at the JCC are made collectively.
