Evgeny Shevchyuk about the foreign policy of Transnistria

The president of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Evgeny Shevchyuk addressed with the annual message, to the people of PMR, state governing bodies. He told about the problems of foreign policy of Transnistria in it:

- According to the Constitution we fixed the purposes, having designated them in the Concept of foreign policy (The decree of November 20, 2012 No. 766) where the main reference points are the protection and ensuring of the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens and also the state interests of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

We are the peaceful state, but can't but recognize that the international non-recognition of the country and action of our some partners deprived of citizens of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic of a number of the rights and the opportunities guaranteed as a priority by the majority of the countries to the citizens.

For example, why still our economic agents are limited in possibility of implementation of free foreign economic activity and in fact, the export on sites of the Dniestr-Ukrainian border is blocked?

Why the citizens of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, living in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, are limited in consular service?

Will you find many examples of the situations similar to the developed in the republic in the world?

So, due to the lack of consulate procedure the exchange of the international passport of the Russian Federation was tightened sometimes to one year in Tiraspol. Isn't it humiliating to come to exit consular point at 3 o'clock a.m. not to pass the turn for weeks? Thus the number of citizens of the Russian Federation living in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic exceeds today 170 thousand people.

For known political reasons as a result of current situation the Republic of Moldova indirectly or directly influences opportunities of citizens of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in a certain measure by its actions or inaction and limits the citizens of the Russian Federation living in the territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the fundamental rights to freedom of movement and other civil rights through an obstacle repaired by a time in opening of the consulate of the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Tiraspol.
Why the citizens of Ukraine living in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (a unique case), have no opportunity to vote on presidential election and elections in the Verkhovna Rada here, in Transnistria?

Why the certificates of Dniestr schools should be confirmed in Kishinev and we have to give the state support to the Romanian schools, in particular in the form of grants for payment of utilities on an equal basis with our establishments of education?

Why the freedom of movement of the citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine living in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, isn't provided through the borders of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine? Thus we pass the citizens of Moldova through our borders.

Why the citizens living on the European continent in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic are deprived today of full-fledged opportunity in providing with the elementary passenger message between our settlements and neighbouring states?

Why the Ukrainian and Moldavian passenger planes and others vessel which are carrying out transit flights can fly through our territory and we are limited in use of such opportunity?

This list can be continued further and our citizens set questions exciting them at meetings with the president and demand their decision.

Today the citizen of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is the hostage of the political one-sided approaches the purposes of which are the achievement of a political victory under the flag of the doubtful thesis of territorial integrity at the heart of which the practice of double standards lies quite often.

Why there is other approach to us?

How the right of the citizens of PMR to development is realized?

Human rights on freedom of movement, economic activity, education are restrained for decades and have to become not only a subject for discussion, but also taking measures, guaranteeing the conditions of accommodation in this European region of people regardless of their political addictions or own vision of a world order of the life.

I consider necessary to address to the countries guarantors, people of good will, the international organizations for protection of elementary human rights, freedoms of implementation of economic activity, movement, education in the native language, the rights to development regardless of the place of residence and other firm elementary rights and opinion of the citizens of PMR – the inhabitants of Europe.

Also I consider that we have to intensify the contacts with regions of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, our partners: South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

We are obliged to study attentively the offers of cooperation with the adjacent regions of the Republic of Moldova, especially that are interested in it: Gagauzia, Beltsy, Briceni, Edinet, Kriulyana, Rezina, Soroca, New Anena, Kaushana and other regions of the Republic of Moldova. The government needs to develop the interaction plan with the specified regions on a constant basis.