Novosti s pridnestroviem

http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020315007020&query=Moldova#docAnchor020315007020Moldova denies export certificates to breakaway region''s companies BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Mar 15, 2002Text of report in English by Moldovan news agency BasapressChisinau, 15 March: Moldova has decided to halt the issue of preferential certificates of origin to Dnestr region-based businesses which export their products to European Union nations.The government said in a press release made available to Basapress that the move was a response to the fact that Dnestr border guards and customs officers obstruct farmers in Dorotcaia and Cosnita, which are controlled by Moldova, to work their crop fields.The Dnestr authorities announced late in 1999 that they were taking over 20,000 hectares of crop fields in Cocieri, Cosnita, Malovata, Dorotcaia and Pohrebea, which are controlled by Chisinau. This decision was taken after these settlements announced plans to privatize local land. Farmers in these villages have repeatedly asked the Moldovan authorities and the mediators, Russia and Ukraine, to help resolve the land problems. They never received an answer.In November 2001, Tiraspol deployed customs and border officials who forbid Dorotcaia farmers to harvest corn from 50 hectares and to plough 1,000 hectares, and to transport some 800 tonnes of wheat.Last January, the Dnestr region cut Cocieri and Molovata off the electric network, and in February it blocked the water purification systems in Criuleni and Rezina. The Moldovan government urged the administration in Tiraspol to remove trade and transport barriers and to allow farmers to work their fields. A major condition for the issue of preferential certificates of origin is the removal of the border and customs posts along the Dnestr river and Dorotcaia and Cosnita in particular.Izviniaiusi chto po angliski...No interesnoSource: Basapress news agency, Chisinau, in English 1730 gmt 15 Mar 02