Medvedev's statement viewed as strange in Tiraspol
Dr. Ilya Galinsky, Director of the Scientific Research Institute of Strategic Analysis and Forecast at Transnistria State University, regards as "strange" the yesterday's statement, made in Deauville-sur-Mer (France) by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev - that success of the Transnistria negotiations will depend not only on Russia but first and foremost on the positions of Moldova and Transnistria, as well as of Romania and the European Union.
Galinsky offered a supposition that, perhaps, the Russian President might simply have an insufficiently all-out knowledge of the topic, otherwise how Medvedev could omit Ukraine as a guarantor country, the more so against the background of Ukraine's growing activity in the conflict settlement process.
The political scientist points out that Medvedev did not mention, either, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - an essential International Mediator to the Transnistrian settlement process.
"One can conclude from Medvedev's sayings that the result of the OSCE's activity is so insignificant that the Organization can be simply ignored", said Ilya Galinsky.
He presumes that the strangeness of Dmitry Medvedev's statement "is strongly amplified by the appearance of Romania on the list of actors on whom the success of Moldo-Transnistrian settlement depends, because all specialists know for certain the facts of Romania's direct participation in the Transnistria conflict on the Republic of Moldova's side".
In his opinion, it is no secret to anybody on whose side Romania will be at handling the Transnistria conflict, and what this will mean in the context of preservation of Transnistria's statehood, "if certainly President Medvedev did not mean the creation of a new state by unification of Romania and the Republic of Moldova (without Transnistria) and, accordingly, a painless solution of the Transnistria conflict", added the Tiraspol political scientist.
"If this strangeness is Russia's official position on the Moldo-Transnistrian settlement, then this is an evidence that Russia is beginning a new 'perestroika' [restructuring] of its external policy, when the wish to please the West and the so-called 'universal liberal values' are outweighing Russian national interests", said Galinsky.
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