The officials in Tiraspol are looking forward to the end of the negotiations regarding the future statute of the Kosovo province, and they seem to have already decided to ask for the independence of Transnistria, if such a solution is reached in the Balkans.
The officials in Vienna that debate on the future statute of the Kosovo province have to be very careful, because a decision in favor of the independence of this region could mean a precedent that would determine Transnistria to ask for a similar treatment. This is how the President of the Parliament of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Republic, Evgheni Sevciuc, sees this situation. He stated that the officials in his republic would organize a referendum regarding the independence, if the decision of the international community was for the independence of the Kosovo province. "We believe the citizens of this region have as many rights as the citizens in Kosovo, as far as the homologation of the state is concerned. We are prepared to organize a referendum and take the appropriate measures", Sevciuc commented upon the first round of negotiations between the Belgrade and Pristina representatives.
According to Itar-Tass agency, Sevciuc believes that a solution for Kosovo will set an international precedent for the other self-proclaimed states in the former Soviet space like Nagorno-Karabah, Abhazia and South Osetia, which could demand and obtain a similar homologation.
OUR OPINION
Romaniaâs opinion about the Kosovo issue has been made public yesterday when President Traian Basescu took part in a meeting with his Macedonian counterpart, Branko Crvenkovski. The Romanian President stated that as "for the main problem at present", the one regarding the future statute of the Kosovo province, Romania is against any modification of the present frontiers, and supports a "negotiated autonomy,
