OSCE Praises Ukrainian Role In Transdniester Dispute
June 02, 2006
A Ukrainian guard at the country's border with the breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniester (file photo) (ITAR-TASS)
Karel De Gucht
, the chairman of the OSCE, met today in Kyiv with President Viktor Yushchenko and Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk.
De Gucht praised Yushchenko for personally taking a role in the search for a settlement of the Transdniester dispute. He also called for the negotiations to be resumed under international mediation.
The so-called "five-plus-two" negotiations' format includes Moldova and Transdniester, with Russia, Ukraine, and the OSCE as mediators, as well as the EU and the United States as observers.
On June 1 and today, De Gucht visited the border between Ukraine and Moldova, and the EU monitoring mission there.