APE staff

The Foreign Policy Association regrets that its name was mentioned in an inappropriate context in the article Transnistria 'zombies' stake their future on Russia, not EU”, published by Andrew Rettman on EUobserver website on 24 January 2011. Moreover, we have to mention that APE doesnt use such words when speaking about people who leave on the left side of the Nistru River and the comments of the APE representative, quoted in the initial version of the article were false and taken out of context.

At the invitation of Lithuania that assumed the Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a group of students from Moldova paid a visit to Vienna on 12-13 January. They met with representatives of the delegation of Lithuanias Chairmanship in Vienna, the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Experts at the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) maintain that a separate ministry should be created to oversee Moldova's European integration process alone.

Philip Remler, Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova

Victor Osipov, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration

Dirk Schuebel, head of the EU Delegation to Moldova

The November 28 elections were expected to produce the long-sought clarity on the Moldovan political arena, but unfortunately for us, it wasn't meant to be this time either. Things start to look even more mixed up, the political crisis is continuing, and the country's future seems to be more uncertain than ever. To rephrase an old Moldovan proverb, a poor man can never get his politicians carry the load”. At this moment, this saying describes our realities best.

With the appointment of Victor Osipov as Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Matters in September 2009, a change in the approach toward the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict has occurred and a series of successes have been attained in a quite short period of time, stated Radu Vrabie, program director of the Foreign Policy Association, at the launch of his survey titled The Transnistrian Issue and Moldova's European Integration: EU's Role”, Info-Prim Neo reports.

This study suggests an assessment and review in progress for the development assistance that the Republic of Moldova was granted by the European Union.

EU role in the 5+2 negotiation process and the possibilities of increasing its involvement in the transnistrian conflict resolution process.

Regular meetings between political representatives of Chisinau and Tiraspol - Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Victor Osipov and Vladimir Yastrebchak. It is relevant that one of the meetings took place right in Tiraspol, on the occasion of launching the working groups. These constant meetings have contributed to solving the current problems and to strengthening the confidence-building measures between the two sides of the Nistru.

During this year, there were a series of events, both domestically and internationally, which resulted in the resumption of the permanent "5+2" dialogue as well as the fulfillment of certain concrete promises, such as for example, to resume passenger transportation on the Tiraspol-Chisinau-Odessa railroad. But there were some incidents caused by the transnistrian side, which disrupted the consultation process by creating artificial tensions. However, uncontrolled escalation of the conflict situations was successfully avoided. This is due, in large part, to the balanced and constructive attitude demonstrated by the Chisinau authorities this year.