Chisinau will Insist on Changing the Format of the Peacekeeping Mission on the Dniester

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Chisinau will keep insisting on changing the format of the peacekeeping mission on the Dniester, said Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Christina Lesnik at a ceremony in the military unit in Varnitsa. She said that the military should be replaced with the international mission of civilian observers. In addition, Chisinau intends to counteract incidents similar to one happened in June, when the armored vehicles of the Operational Group of Russian Troops were spotted on the road Rybnitsa-Tiraspol, publika.md reports. “We need to determine the international mandate parameters and take appropriate steps to apply it. We no longer want to see armored vehicles moving freely in the Security Zone”, said Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Christina Lesnik. The Joint Control Commission says that the peacekeeping mission has been effective so far. “There must be a consensus. But there is nothing new yet, there are no decisions, you cannot destroy the thing that have been contributing to the maintenance of peace in the Security Zone for 26 years”, said the co-chairman of the JCC Ion Solonenko. There are about 1,300 soldiers in the peacekeeping troops from both banks of the Dniester and from Russia. The agreement on the creation of the Security Zone and the beginning of the peacekeeping operation in 1992 was signed by the presidents of Moldova and Russia Mircea Snegur and Boris Yeltsin.