Checkpoint in Transnistria. Archival photoCHISINAU, May 17. Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament Igor Grosu believes that there is no quick solution to the Transnistrian conflict today, especially since the process of negotiations in the «5 + 2″ format has been put on hold.» We have a dialogue with Pridnestrovie, we discuss security issues, despite the fact that we have different views. There is no quick solution to the Pridnestrovian conflict, the Pridnestrovian issue must be resolved, but only peacefully at the negotiating table,» Grosu said on air radio station «Moldova».Pridnestrovie took additional security measures for border guardsAccording to him, residents of the left bank of the Dniester are concerned about the latest events, they go to the right bank, receive passports and do not want the conflict to escalate. «because the two countries are participants in the war. This format is suspended… After the end of the war, we will be able to get together and discuss how to resolve the Transnistrian conflict,» the speaker added. Earlier, Ukraine temporarily suspended the activities of military observers in the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester. OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said at a briefing in Chisinau at the end of March that it is still difficult to discuss when and under what conditions the next meeting in the 5+2 format will take place. Chisinau and Tiraspol as parties to the conflict, Russia, Ukraine, the OSCE as mediators, the European Union and the United States as observers participate in the negotiations on the Transnistrian settlement in the «5 + 2» format. Transnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that, on the wave of nationalism, Moldova would join Romania. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the problem by force, Pridnestrovie became virtually a territory not controlled by Chisinau. terrorist threat
