Talks only way to settle Transdnestr conflict -President Smirnov
23/12/200901:37
TIRASPOL, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - The president of Moldova’s breakaway republic of Transdnestr said Tuesday there is no alternative to talks to settle the conflict.
“There is no alternative to negotiations today. But talks for the sake of talks do not resolve problems. Guarantees are required that all that the sides will agree to will really work,” Igor Smirnov told the OSCE chairman-in-office’s special representative Charalampos Christopoulos.
The Russian-speaking province of Transdnestr has maintained de facto independence from Moldova since a brief war in 1992, which was the culmination of tensions following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Russia has had peacekeepers in the region since July 1992, and the negotiation process has been frozen since February 2006.
Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are mediators in the conflict, and the European Union and the United States are observers.
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