Tiraspol, December 10. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. Pridnestrovie wants to see active work by Finland, which will become the current OSCE chairman in 2025, on the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian settlement track. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR, Vitaly Ignatiev. He recalled that in 2008, Finland already chaired the OSCE and achieved good results: after a long pause, meetings of the leaders of the PMR and the RM resumed, while the work of the 5 + 2 format, which had also been frozen after February 2006, began to gradually resume. Helsinki was actively involved in banking and trade and economic problems in relations between Pridnestrovie and Moldova. Finally, it was under the Finnish Chairmanship that the position of special representative of the current OSCE chairman for the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian settlement appeared.
"If Finnish diplomacy in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act of the CSCE demonstrates a focus on practical solutions and equal partnership dialogue, then in the person of Pridnestrovie it will find a reliable and consistent interlocutor," Vitaly Ignatiev emphasized.
He named the priorities of Pridnestrovie: protection of human rights, security and freedom of movement of citizens, unblocking trade, economic and banking and financial activities, intensification of diplomatic efforts, including the signing of the Declaration of Commitment to Peaceful Methods of the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian Settlement.
The head of the PMR MFA described the last few years as a "period of missed opportunities" in the negotiation process between Pridnestrovie and Moldova.
"After 2019, the stagnation of international dialogue continues from year to year, and none of the subsequent Chairmanships [in the OSCE] has even achieved minimal success in the settlement. But this does not mean that it will always be like this,” the head of the PMR MFA emphasized.
