Declaration signed by Filat and Smirnov is important, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office

“The constructive meeting and the declaration that Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat and Transdniestrian leader Igor Smirnov signed are important steps on the path towards a settlement,” OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis has said in a press statement, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. “We appreciate the sides’ commitment to negotiations in the 5+2 format. That commitment is making it possible to hold the first official meeting of the 5+2 in nearly six years. The joint declaration lays a good foundation for that meeting, which I as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office will host in Vilnius at the end of November,” reads the statement issued by the OSCE Mission to Moldova. Vlad Filat and Igor Smirnov met at the OSCE Mission to Moldova’s office in Bender on November 21.