Kozak Memorandum
International negotiations on Transnistria conflict set to re-start after six years
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November 30, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Washington, DC -- Lavrov squashes hope for constructive restart of Transnistria negotiations. International negotiations on the Transnistria conflict are scheduled to re-start on November 30-December...
Interview: OSCE Protracted-Conflicts Ambassador Measures Progress In 'Millimeters'
October 01, 2011By Robert Coalson -- Lithuanian diplomat Giedrius Cekuolis is the OSCE Chairmanship's special representative for protracted conflicts. His arduous mandate includes the disputes over Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region, the Nagorno-Karabakh region...
Resumption Of Talks On Moldova's Trandniester Conflict Is Only A Small First Step
October 01, 2011By Robert Coalson -- The announcement that official talks are to resume in the so-called 5+2 format aimed at resolving Moldova's long-standing conflict with the breakaway Transdniester region has been hailed as a small but important bit of progress...
Transnistrian conflict: 5+2 format to prevent negative developments
January 12, 2010The 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...
Acting president says CIS "obsolete" but beneficial to Moldova
October 12, 2009It is beneficial to Moldova to be a member of the CIS even though this organization is "becoming obsolete", the acting president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, said at a news conference on the results of the CIS summit in Chisinau on...
Moscow Plays It Smart In Moldova, As Others Dither
June 29, 2009By Louis O'Neill The "Big Daddy" of U.S. Democratic Party politics in the 1960s and '70s, Jesse Unruh, had a wonderfully ribald saying about the role of money and influence in the business of government: "If you can't drink a lobbyist...