KYIV. April 18 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is concerned about the Transdniestrian parliament's appeal for Russian recognition of the independence of the breakaway territory.
"We are profoundly concerned about the appeal of the so-called Supreme Council of the Transdniestrian region of Moldova to a guarantor and mediator of the Transdniestrian peace process, the Russian Federation, for the recognition of independent Transdniestria," the ministry press service said in a commentary.
These moves of Tiraspol call into question the Transdniestrian peace process and the territorial integrity of Moldova, Kyiv opined. "For a long time Ukraine has been expressing a common position of members of the negotiating process about the need for the exclusive use of peaceful methods in the political settlement of the conflict on the basis of preservation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova and the special status of the Transdniestrian region within united Moldova," the commentary runs.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry indicated that the complicated socioeconomic situation in Transdniestria created as a result of artificial self-isolation cannot be resolved with a confrontation but required the acceptance of a European choice offered to citizens on both banks of the Dniester River.
The Supreme Council of the unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic appealed on April 16 to the Russian president, the State Duma, the Federation Council, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for the recognition of the Transdniestrian independence.