Negotiations on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict should not be an end in itself for the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to be lured into a new "success story" in the regulation of frozen conflicts because the central aim of the reintegration policy is to strengthen the constitutional space of the country, achieved without the unconditional withdrawal of Russian foreign troops.

Any negotiations in the accepted format of the mediators must serve the purpose of the reintegration of the Republic of Moldova, and not the territorial dislocation or "cantonization" of recipes incompatible with the unitary and sovereign character of the state, building resilience as it repeatedly recommends to the Member States associated European Union and not weakness or ambiguities of status.

Democratization and economic development are important as tools to facilitate collaboration between the parties, but they can not help reintegration policies themselves if mediators and observers of the negotiating process will avoid "hard" issues in the regulatory process, such as the evacuation of Russian troops , the change of the peacekeeping mission, the frequent violations of the security zone regime, the use of the repression instruments against Moldovan citizens who live on the left bank of the Dniester by the separatist regime security organs.

These were some key messages at the conference organized by IDIS "Viitorul" on June 6, 2018, at the Summit Events, "Developments and challenges of regional security: the visions of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine".

Roman Botan, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Security, and Public Order, claims that the country's reintegration policy is on the right track; the government feels the lack of a unitary resolution policy for the secessionist conflict, and the legislative body is not consulted by the Government on the issues discussed during the negotiations. "There is a need for a democratic system where state institutions could collaborate in defining the common position," Botan said.

Igor Munteanu, the director of IDIS Viitorul, developed the concept of "occupied territory" in international law and the implications of adopting this term by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova on state policies, explaining that court decisions are mandatory, they must be guiding for state policies , including those government decisions that draw lines of conduct in the negotiations. The speaker regretted that under the pressure of a political juncture, some decision-makers decide ad hoc on issues that are not sufficiently clearly analyzed, which, through their effects, lead to worsening of the state's positions in relation to other actors in this conflict, including in the report with the real sponsors of the conflict. It referred to natural gas deliveries as regime subsidy instruments to purchases of industrial property against debts, involving Russian or Transnistrian oligarchs who contributed substantially to the exorbitant debt of $ 6.4 billion (without penalties) of the company mixed Moldova-gas. State authorities are a bit concerned at this time with the security of their citizens, affected by both hybrid and conventional threats, by keeping intact the sources of military and subversive Transnistrian conflict.

George Balan, senior state councilor for the Reintegration of the Prime Minister, said that any talks on political negotiations are useless until all foreign military personnel is permanently withdrawn. "It is unimaginable to offer the recognition of political formations in the presence of these inhibiting and threatening factors. Chisinau should not give up negotiations, but we have to make sure that the citizens of the Republic of Moldova are not harmed in their rights, no matter which part of the Dniester they find themselves. In 2017, the Republic of Moldova de facto began to control the country's eastern border with Ukraine, but there are other ways of extending the constitutional common spaces to the left bank of the Dniester. "

Alin Gvidiani, Deputy Head of Reintegration Policy Bureau, Head of Analysis and Planning Section, says that the authorities of the Republic of Moldova are taking the necessary measures to ensure that the citizens in the vicinity of the Ribnita-Tiraspol route have access to agricultural land located on the left bank of the Dniester River. At the same time, concrete steps are taken to bring the two banks of the Nistru near. Examples are the reopening of the traffic on the Gura Bâcului-Bacioc bridge or the signing of the protocol on the access of the vehicles from the left bank of the Nistru River to the international traffic.

Negotiations on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict should not be an end in itself for the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to be lured into a new "success story" in the regulation of frozen conflicts because of the central objective of the reintegration policies