The participation of Transdnestr in the ordinary consultations on the Moldovan-Transdnestrian conflict settlement in the 5+2 format is still undecided, Transdnestrian leader Igor Smirnov said.
The 5+2 consultations are due to be held on September in Vienna. Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE participate in the talks as mediators, the UE and the United States as observers.
This year's first 5+2 consultations were held in March, and the participants have agreed to hold such meetings regularly and possibly frequently so as to restart the full-scale Transdnestrian negotiations, which have been frozen since 2006.
"We are still thinking whether we want to attend the consultations," Smirnov said. The current composition of the commission raises doubts, he added.
Only when Moldova resolves its interior problems the consultations will become effective, Smirnov said.
The Transdnestrian conflict began in early 1989 when a law was passed in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) making Moldovan the official language in the tri-lingual state.
The decision caused a particularly painful reaction in the mostly Russian-speaking region of Transdnestr, the most industrially developed region of Moldavia.
The Transdnestrian Republic announced its independence from Moldova on September 2, 1990. The Moldovan government did not recognize the new 'state' and responded by sending troops to the region.
A series of local clashes in the region culminated in June 1992 with a large-scale armed conflict on the banks of the River Dnestr, in which around 700 people died.
A ceasefire was signed in July 1992. A demilitarized security zone was created in the region and enforced by Russian armed forces already stationed there.
The international community does not recognize the independence of the Republic of Transdnestr.
TIRASPOL, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
