JCC adopts appeal to willingly surrender guns to population from both banks of the Dniester
The Joint Control Commission (JCC) on May 29 adopted an appeal to population from both banks of the Dniester living in the security zone to yield up the illegally kept arms and munitions that they appropriated during the armed conflict of 1992.
The document was signed after one year and a half of negotiations and aims to reduce the possible consequences of the illegal use of arms in the security zone. The JCC members assure that the population that will surrender the guns will not be punished.
Ion Solonenco, the co-president of the JCC on behalf of Moldova, said that this is a step towards strengthening the confidence between the parties. At the next meeting, the Commission will consider the method in which the population will yield up their guns.
The Moldovan delegation proposed that the JCC members should carry out an inspection at the peacekeepers’ posts and military observers’ posts located in the security zone. According to Solonenco, such a measure is needed in order to avoid accusations that certain troops and units of peacekeepers in the security zone have not been authorized to work by the JCC.
The Commission’s meeting coincided with the UN Peacekeepers’ Day marked on May 29 in Varnitsa, the place where the Moldovan peacekeepers have been dispatched.
The military attach? and observers on behalf of Ukraine as well as representatives of the OSCE Mission to Moldova took part in the ceremony dedicated to the UN Peacekeepers’ Day. The Transdniestrian and Russian delegations to the JCC refused to take part in the event in Varnitsa // Reporter.MD
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