MEDIA ADVISORY

Transdniestrian settlement talks in the 5+2 format to take place in Bratislava on 9 and 10 October 2019

BRATISLAVA/CHISINAU, 7 October 2019 – A meeting of the Transdniestrian settlement talks in the 5+2 format will take place in Bratislava on 9 and 10 October 2019. The talks will be hosted by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák and Franco Frattini, the Special Representative of the Slovak Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process. 

The meeting, officially known as the “Permanent Conference for Political Questions in the Framework of the Negotiating Process on the Transdniestrian Settlement in the 5+2 format”, will bring together representatives of the Sides – the Republic of Moldova and Transdniestria, the mediators from the OSCE, the Russian Federation and Ukraine as well as observers in the negotiations – the European Union and the United States. 

The 5+2 meeting will review the course of implementation of confidence-building measures agreed in the framework of the “Berlin-plus” package and will scope possible complementary and new priority issues for further confidence building measures.  

The Transdniestrian settlement talks in the 5+2 format will be held at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava. On Thursday, 10 October, a press briefing on the outcomes of the 5+2 talks will be held in the Congress Hall of the Ministry, at 11:00 a.m. (Bratislava time), 12:00 p.m. (Chisinau time).

Media representatives wishing to attend the press briefing in Bratislava must register by sending an e-mail confirming attendance to [email protected] by 18:00 p.m., 9 October 2019, and should arrive at the reception desk of the Ministry no later than 10:15 a.m. 

The press briefing will be also broadcast via video link to the OSCE Mission to Moldova in Chisinau, 75 Alexei Mateevici Street. Media representatives wishing to participate in the live press conference at the premises of the OSCE Mission must confirm their attendance by sending an e-mail with their name and the name of their media organization to [email protected] by 18:00 p.m., 9 October 2019. 

Registered media representatives are kindly requested to arrive at the OSCE Mission to Moldova premises in Chisinau at least 30 minutes before the press conference and present a valid press card and/or ID. 

The press conference will take place in English with the simultaneous translation in Romanian and Russian languages. 

For more information, please contact the Press Office of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, at +373 22 223 495 or e-mail: [email protected].

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