Weekly meeting of the Joint Control Commission

The regular meeting of the Unified Control Commission was convened in Bender on April 7, 2022. The agreed agenda included various topical issues regarding the peacekeeping mission on the Dniester River.

The beginning of the meeting was marked by the misinterpretation by Tiraspol of the decision taken a week before on the temporary withdrawal of Ukrainian military observers from the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, a position that created controversy in the work of the Joint Military Command.

After several pauses and a convening of the co-chairs, representatives of Ukraine and the OSCE Mission to the Commission, taking into account the proposal of the representative of the OSCE Mission, the sides have put this issue aside.

Two reports of the Joint Military Command on the situation in the Security Zone were approved, including the one for March 30 - April 5 of this year.

The examination of the problematic issues in another 21 reports on previous periods did not bring the sides closer to a unanimous decision and was carried over to subsequent meetings. Most of the remaining reports do not reflect the real state of affairs in the Security Zone after the installation of illegal posts by Tiraspol at the beginning of the pandemic, and the Commission ordered the military component to present solutions that would help eliminate differences.

The OSCE Mission to Moldova informed the Commission that during March, 2022, it had carried out 29 Security Zone monitoring trips, noting that it had not witnessed any significant changes in the situation in the region.

The members of the Joint Control Commission are due to hold a new meeting on April 14.

The delegation of the Republic of Moldova to the Joint Control Commission