TIRASPOL – President of the unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky stands in favor of the continuation of the negotiations on the Moldovan-Transdniestrian settlement, but has no intention to abandon the country’s status of independence, Krasnoselsky said.
“I’ve always been a believer in the idea that the basis of our security is certainly our independence. We are ready to discuss any issues of an economic, cultural, humanitarian nature with our Moldovan colleagues. And that’s what we do. But the political status issue will be introduced in the agenda under no circumstances. I emphasized earlier that it, independence, was determined by the people,” Krasnoselsky said at the second congress of the All-Transdniestrian People’s Forum.
“Tiraspol does not accept any special political status within Moldova, not even federation or confederation,” he said. “Accepting any forms of federative or confederative structure is quite dangerous. If we lost our statehood, we would create extremely high risks and a very great danger to the point of resumption of hostilities,” the president said.
Krasnoselsky said he has “always stood in favor of the continuation of the negotiating process, both in the ‘5+2’ format (involving Transdniestria and Moldova as the parties, Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE as mediators, and the European Union and the United States as observers) and in the ‘1+1’ format (the negotiations between Chisinau and Tiraspol at various levels).”
