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KISHINYEV, February 22 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday Ukraine Transnistria, a Moscow-backed separatist region bordering and hosted by Russia, partially asserts Moldova’s sovereignty over the future of the region. cancellation did.
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The decree on the cancellation of the 2012 document was published on the Kremlin’s website, and the decision was “due to the deep changes in international relations of Russia. national it is stated that it was accepted to ensure their interests”.
It is part of the anti-Western moves Putin announced on Tuesday.
Alexandru Flencea, the Moldovan chairman of the joint control commission in the security zone around Transnistria, said that the cancellation does not mean that Putin renounces the concept of Moldovan sovereignty.
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Flencea told Publika-TV: “Decree It is a policy document that implements the concept of Russia’s foreign policy. Moldova and Russia the basis of mutual respect for the territorial integrity of our countries political there is an agreement”.
The Kremlin said that Russia’s relations with Moldova were very tense. He made Moldova anti-Russia accused of carrying out the agenda.
Romania and Ukraine 20 to Moldova, which is one of the poorest countries in Europe20since USA and Europe With the strong support of the Union the president Maia Sandu is in charge. USA President Joe Biden confirmed his support by meeting him in Poland on Tuesday.
The 2012 decree committed Russia to seeking solutions to the separatist problem “on the basis of respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and neutral status of the Republic of Moldova in determining the special status of the Transnistrian territory.”
Transnistrian Russian-speakers left Moldova in 1990, a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, out of fear that Moldova would merge with Romania, with whom it largely shares its language and culture.
A brief war pitted newly independent Moldova against separatists in 1992. But in the last 30 years, there has been virtually no violence, with Russian “peacekeepers” stationed in a small piece of land that is still not recognized internationally.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova said that it will “carefully study” the document.
Reporting by Alexander Tanas, Lidia Kelly and Ron Popeski; Writing by Lydia Kelly in Melbourne; Edited by Michael Perry
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2023-02-22 07:03:17
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