CHISINAU. Nov 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Moldova wants Russia to honor its commitments to the OSCE and withdraw its troops and defense hardware from the country, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry's press service quoted First Deputy Foreign Minister Eugenia Chistruga as saying.
"Chisinau insists on the Russian Federation honoring all its commitments made in 1999 and confirmed at the Porto Summit to withdraw troops and ammunition from the Republic of Moldova's Transdniestrian region," she told the NATO high level working group on arms control and the Conventional Arms in Europe in Europe, which held a session in Brussels last week.
Twenty six NATO member nations were represented at the meeting, Chistruga said.
Chisinau will present this position at the meeting of OSCE foreign ministers to be held in Sofia in December, she said.
Speakers at the working group meeting supported Moldova by saying that the withdrawal of Russian troops and weaponry will promote a settlement to the Transdniestrian conflict, the press service reports.
Transdniestria used to be part of Moldova. Following a de facto separation of Transdniestria from Moldova, the two sides have been engaged in confrontation whose settlement has been mediated by Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE. Joint peacekeeping units manned by Russian, Moldovan and Transdniestrian troops and military observers from Ukraine supervise security in the conflict area.