Peacekeepers are Guarantee of our Security

It has been 27 years since Russian soldiers, like angels from the sky in a military transport plane to the the Tiraspol airfield. They became harbingers of a long-awaited peace for all Pridnestrovians after the bitter war of 1992. 27 years later, on the same hot days, the Institute for Social and Political Research and Regional Development held a roundtable meeting “Russian peacekeeping on the Dniester and a new political reality in Moldova”. One of the main objectives of the forum with international participation, the organizers stated as the identification and earlier warning of threats to regional stability. Among those invited to the discussion are parliamentarian, political scientist Andrei Safonov and Deputy of the Supreme Council, co-chairman of the Pridnestrovian Joint Control Commission Oleg Belyakov.

The roundtable participants discussed the current situation in Moldova, its impact on the security sector and the prospects for a young Pridnestrovian settlement. The subject of discussion was also the possibility of achieving a geopolitical compromise in Pridnestrovie by the main foreign policy players in this region of the globe - Russia, Ukraine, the United States, the countries of the European Union.