CHISINAU. July 16 (Interfax) - Chisinau and Tiraspol have agreed to intensify negotiations on settling the conflict over Transdniestria and resolve routine problems, representatives of the parties said at a video-conference following another round of 5+2 negotiations on Transdniestria in Vienna on Friday.
"The matter primarily implies cooperation in the education field and facilitation of free movement of people, goods and services within the security area as much as possible," Transdniestrian Foreign Minister Nina Stanschi said.
Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Eugen Carpov said the participants in the talks in Vienna discussed railroad and automobile traffic and the repair of a bridge across the Dniester River near the village of Gura Bicului.
"We agreed to increase the number of passenger trains passing through the Bender and Tiraspol stations, in particular, by launching a train between Chisinau and Rostov-on-Don through Transdniestria. We also discussed the issuance of permissions to motor transport companies from Transdniestria," he said.
The parties also discussed mutual recognition of education certificates and the functioning of eight Moldovan schools in Transdniestria, Carpov said.
Erwan Fouere, a special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office for Transdniestria settlement, who hosted the meeting, praised the parties' political will to move ahead in the negotiations. He described the talks as very productive but urged the parties to double efforts.
The official negotiations between Chisinau and Tiraspol were resumed in November 2011 following a nearly six-year recess. The next 5+2 meeting should take place in Vienna in September.