The mandate of the OSCE Mission to Moldova focuses on conflict resolution. To a great extent, resolving the Transdniestria conflict depends on building confidence. These photographs illustrate aspects of confidence-building in which the OSCE Mission to Moldova has been engaged, or on which the sides themselves came to an agreement.
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Moldovan soldiers help to prepare S200 surface to air missiles for demilitarization, part of an OSCE
project funded by Germany and implemented with the assistance of experts from the Russian Federation. (OSCE/Albert Moinard)
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After a break of over four years, passenger trains between Chisinau and Odessa via Transdniestria
resumed operating in October 2010 following an agreement between the sides. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)
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In 2010 the Mission worked with the sides to reach agreement on the restoration of landline
communications between the two banks of Nistru/Dniestr, interrupted since 2003. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)
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Members of the OSCE Mission to Moldova patrol the Security Zone on a regular basis meeting a wide
range of people, such as these monks from the Chitcani monastery. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)
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Moldovan army engineers destroy cluster munitions in May 2010 as part of an OSCE project funded by
Norway and Spain. (Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Moldova/Andrei Camerzan)
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An agreement between the sides allows farmers in the Dorotcaia area, which is under Moldovan control,
to have access to their land on the East side of the Ryibnitsa-Tiraspol highway. (OSCE Mission to Moldova)
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Simplified regulations for the export of goods from Transdniestria by rail, developed through the bilateral
dialogue between Chisinau and Tiraspol, help to build confidence between the sides. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)
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Children from both sides of the River Nistru/Dniestr spent ten days at an OSCE summer camp in Vadul lui
Voda, Moldova, August 2010. (OSCE/Anna Backlund)
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Moldovan army engineers prepare to destroy the last of their stocks of 220mm rockets at the Bulboaca
Training Area as part of a programme to dispose of unwanted ammunition. (OSCE Mission to Moldova)
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The Mission’s Military Adviser Colonel Yonko Totevski, observes the autumn exercises of the Joint
Peacekeeping Forces in the Security Zone at Dubasari Bridge, 28 October 2010. (OSCE/Iurie Foca)
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An OSCE patrol near the tiny hamlet of Pobeda in Transdniestria, close to the Ukrainian border. (OSCE/Jean-Christophe Vincent Couet)