Transdnestr official: “Voronin inclined members of terrorist organizations in various countries to carry out terror acts in Transdnestr”

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Special Envoy of the Supreme Council of the Transdnestr Moldavian Republic on Interparliamentary Relations Grigory Marakutsa has commented to a REGNUM correspondent the situation over terror act in Tiraspol on July 6:

“Somebody outside Transdnestr does not like that a calm situation has established in the republic for a long time. For 14 years of Russian peacekeeping mission in the Moldovan-Transdnestr conflict zone not a person died. Any time, Moldavia raised the question of changing the peacekeeping format, the fact was the main counter argument from our side. However, someone did not like our argument. Somebody did not like that the Russian peacekeepers went on so well with their duties. The terror act [a taxi minibus exploded in the center of Tiraspol on July 6 — REGNUM] is just an attempt to discredit the Russian peacekeepers before the summit of the G8 in Saint Petersburg in order to raise the question of their withdrawal from the conflict zone, change the peacekeeping format and satisfy ambitions of the Moldavian party.

”In my opinion, a definite trace of the Moldavian special services can be seen in the terror act. Recently, state officials and members of Moldavian special services have become regular visitors to some countries where terrorist organizations are present, particularly, to Albania. Voronin has met people who support terrorists in Chechnya and al-Qaeda. According to our data, President of Moldavia Vladimir Voronin and officials of Moldavian special services inclined members of terror organizations in various countries to carry out terror acts in Transdnestr. They seem to have succeeded in it.

“Moldavian President Voronin and Georgian President Saakashvili have repeatedly announced that the question of unrecognized states of the post-Soviet territory – Transdnestr, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Karabakh, and also of putting limits to Russia’s participation in peacekeeping operations in these countries should be raised at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. An agreement was signed in Sukhumi between Transdnestr, South Ossetia and Abkhazia to establish joint peacekeeping forces and only two days ago in Moscow these republics have signed an agreement about interparliamentary cooperation.”

They are paving the way for establishing an interparliamentary assembly with participation of these states and international organizations, particularly, the OSCE, in the investigation.

“Killing Russian diplomats in Iraq and today’s terror act in Tiraspol are, to my mind, chains of one chain that support the idea that international terrorism is a global phenomenon and that its representatives are now trying to raise its head all over the world. It is the problem that should be discussed at the forthcoming G8 summit, but not the question how to annex Transdnestr, South Ossetia and Abkhazia to the so-called metropolies – Moldavia and Georgia.”