For over 16 years the population of Transnistria lives under the conditions of an unsettled conflict and out of the constitutional field of the Republic of Moldova. Various models of political settlement, proposed by international mediators, and first of all by Russia, were not implemented, says a comment of the Department of Information and Print of the Russian MFA on the referendum in Transnistria.
The Russian MFA Believes that Transnistria residents used direct democracy institution, i.e. referendum, to express their ideas on the preferred form of securing stability and predictability in the region. High level of participation is registered (according to the Transnistria Central Electoral Commission 78.6% of those having vote right took part in the referendum) and there were no significant shortcomings,» says the MFA statement.
The Russian party hopes that in this situation OSCE and Ukraine mediators, as well as US and EU observers invited in the past will activate their efforts to form necessary preconditions for restoring the negotiation process with participation of Kishinev and Tiraspol, reports the Russian MFA Press Office.
