According to him, over the past two years, great success has been achieved using a step-by-step approach.

“Today I called on both parties to continue this path in the spirit of dialogue and mutual cooperation regardless of internal political processes,” the OSCE Mission’s press service quoted him as saying.

Frattini noted that Kishenev and Tiraspol assured him of the intention to maintain an intensive pace of negotiations.

At the end of December, Moldovan and Transnistrian leaders Igor Dodon and Vadim Krasnoselsky held a meeting in Bendery.