OSCE Mission to Moldova

Head of Mission visits a kindergarten where the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) piloted a bilingual education programme in the Gagauz and Romanian languages for children attending Russian language pre-schools, Kongaz, 24 September. (OSCE/Iurie Foca)

Journalists improve skills of reporting on diversity and national minorities in Moldova at an OSCE-led event, Chisinau, 27 June 2019. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)

The mediators and the observers in the Transdniestrian Settlement Process at the OSCE Mission to Moldova premises ahead of their meetings with the Moldovan and Transdniestrian leadership, Chisinau, 12 July 2019. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)

The OSCE Mission to Moldova builds confidence between legal and civil society professionals from both banks to address prevalent human rights issues prioritized by the Human Rights sub-Working Group, which was reactivated by Chisinau and Tiraspol in 2018. (OSCE/Liubomir Turcanu)

Two Joint Vehicle Registration Offices (VROs) were opened on 1 September 2018 in the left-bank cities of Tiraspol and Ribnita in line with the April 2018 “licence plate” agreement. The VROs issue internationally recognized Moldovan neutral-design licence plates to vehicles from Transdniestria to allow for their participation in international traffic. (OSCE/Igor Schimbator)

Lucian Blaga Theoretical Lyceum in Tiraspol is one of the eight Latin-script schools in Transdniestria. These schools now operate with symbolic rental costs, standardized utility fees, as well as a mechanism for the simplified crossing of students and delivery of goods via internal checkpoints. A relevant agreement was implemented by Chisinau and Tiraspol in 2018 in the framework of the settlement process. (OSCE/Liubomir Turcanu)

The Mission is assisting the Moldovan authorities in increasing awareness and understanding of the Holocaust in a local context as a way to promote an open and healing discussion of painful periods of the country’s history. (OSCE/Iurie Foca)