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Transdniester issue on the agenda of the meeting Ionita- Meier-Klodt
Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs Daniel Ionita has received on Wednesday ambassador Cord Meier-Klodt, recently designated as Special Representative for the Transdniester regulation's process of the future (German) acting chairmanship of the OSCE, a meeting during which the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) official expressed Romania's support to the priorities assumed by Berlin in this mandate.
The Romanian official said that the Transdniester regulation is based on the "5+2" negotiation format, that stays the only framework in which a viable, just solution, with observing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, could be identified. The priority now should be the resuming of the "5+2" process, by a constructive involvement of all the participants, says the MAE in a release.
Likewise, the state secretary Daniel Ionita expressed Romania's preoccupation to ensuring the right to education in the Transdniester region, and in particular for the situation of the eight schools with Latin script teaching. The Romanian diplomat asked for the close follow up of the schools' matter and the involvement of the future German chairmanship of the OSCE in finding durable solutions to the issues affecting the normal functioning of these tuition bodies.
According to the MAE, current aspects regarding the trade facilitation of the Transdniester region with the European Union were also tackled. The intensification of the dialogue on the Transdniester problematic during the German presidency of the OSCE was also agreed upon.
The meeting of the state secretary for strategic affairs Daniel Ionita with ambassador Cord Meier-Klodt, Special Representative for the Transdniester regulation's process of the future (German) acting chairmanship of the OSCE is in accordance with the regular dialogue of the Romanian side with the actors involved in the "5+2" format negotiations.
The "5+2" format gathers at the negotiations' table the representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the OSCE, the Republic of Moldova and the Tiraspol administration, as well as the ones of the EU and of the US. The last "5+2" formal reunion took place in Vienna, on June 5-6, 2014. In 2015, one single informal meeting took place in Vienna, on April 21.