Transnistria is trying to save the largest metallurgical plant from Moldovan and Ukrainian oligarchs
The Transnistrian authorities sought the lifting of Ukrainian sanctions on the Moldavian Metallurgical Plant (MMZ) through the “5+2” format, which includes Moldova and Transnistria as parties to the conflict, the Russian Federation and Ukraine as guarantors and mediators, the OSCE as a mediator, and the United States and the European Union as observers. .
This was stated by the President of Transnistria Vadim Krasnoselsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We didn’t sit idly by. We turned to our site in the “5+2” format. And they contacted the government in Moldova so that officials could give an assessment and conduct an inspection,” Krasnoselsky said.
According to him, the sanctions were lifted after it became clear that MMZ is a state-owned enterprise and Russian capital does not own it.
“If sanctions were imposed because Russian capital allegedly exists there, but it was proven that it is not there, then naturally the sanctions should be lifted automatically,” Krasnoselsky said.
He called the interest of the Moldovan and Ukrainian media in lifting sanctions speculative.
“Three years ago, when the enterprise was not working, there was no speculation. And this suited everyone, except, of course, the people who work at MMZ, since the plant is a city-forming enterprise. Today, when the plant is successful, this annoys someone,” Krasnoselsky noted.
It should be noted that last summer Ukraine imposed sanctions against MMZ, which made it impossible to supply metal scrap to Transnistria. In March 2019, the sanctions were lifted.
A month later, a campaign against the “separatist” enterprise began in the Moldovan and Ukrainian media. Journalists hinted at a corruption conspiracy between the authorities of Ukraine and Moldova. MMZ is a competitor of the Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
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