Foreign Policy In Focus News Release: Moldova/Transdnistria Conflict

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Foreign Policy In Focus News Release: Moldova/Transdnistria
Conflict


FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
http://www.fpif.org/

What's New At FPIF
November 6, 2001

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Moldova/Transdnistria Conflict
By Robert Cutler

The proposals by the OSCE have until recently been instrumental in
promoting movement toward a political settlement of this conflict in
Moldova. That is in part because the Russian government has not had
the means to influence the situation militarily, and the (civilian)
ethnic Russians in Transdnistria have not be been interested in
pressing further any separatist demands. However, the communist
victory in Moldovan elections in early 2001 changes that situation.
Until now, Moldova has insisted that the roughly 2,500 troops
remaining from Russia's former 14th army be withdrawn from
Transdnistria. New Moldovan leaders, however, have said that the
Russian troops could not leave before their arsenal was evacuated. It
is conceivable that the new Moldovan leadership will invite the
Russians to guard those munitions and even offer Moscow a military
base in the Transdnistrian region. As this would make the separatist
authorities in Tiraspol politically superfluous, such a move could
aggravate the conflict.

See new FPIF Conflict Profile:
http://www.fpif.org/selfdetermination/conflicts/moldova.html

Also see other FPIF analysis of self-determination conflicts around
the world:

Self-Determination In Focus
http://www.fpif.org/selfdetermination/index.html

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