Transnistrian conflict: 5+2 format to prevent negative developments
The Transnistrian settlement process has achieved its extreme internationalization, and the 5+2 negotiation format is a guarantee that no silly things or repetition of mistakes will be let happen, presumes Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) Executive Director Igor Botan.
Botan said during an on-line conference held at the AllTiras portal that the formal solution of the Transnistria conflict is preceded by a program of measures of building trust at the levels of both grassroots and state power institutions.
"Everyone should come to feel and realize that normal people, not enemies, reside on both banks of the Dniester River", the scientist said.
In his opinion, any haste at resolving the two-decade-long conflict is contraindicative, and exotic variants of resolving the conflict, like e.g. the Kozak Memorandum of 2003, should be avoided by all means.
"The thing is, two of the negotiation process' three international guarantors, Russia and Ukraine, can't guarantee what they haven't tried themselves, therefore they have no idea how such mechanisms function in crisis-like situations. In this sense, I would highlight the Spanish model of managing a country of autonomies: autonomous regions in Spain have more rights than Russian Federation subjects. At the same time, the Spanish autonomies are unable to use the federalization factor for their possible separatist substantiations", Dr. Botan said.
He presumes Moldovan diplomats ought to think how Moldova could intertwine its small problems into the big problems of re-setting the strategic relations between Russia and the United States, and between Russia and the European Union.
"Our small problems could be used for testing the functioning of the re-set strategic relations between the West and the Russian Federation. I guess it would be unwise to have small islands of instability inside the territories of major strategic partners. Of course, upon final settlement of the conflict, Russia should be given the laurels of the chief peacemaker, but guarantees should be bilateral - Russian and Western ones. And there is much room for work yet", said Igor Botan.
Infotag news agency (Moldova)
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