Lobjakas Ahto

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• Moldova: EU Launches First ’Neighborhood Policy’ Border Mission In Post-Soviet Space

  9 January 2006
  Moldova and Ukraine celebrated the launch of an EU «Border Assistance Mission» on 7 October, giving 50 EU experts a free hand to monitor the comings and goings on the border between the two countries. The exercise aims at clamping down on the smuggling known to be rife on the Transdniestrian/Ukrainian border. In the long run, the European Union hopes to erode the wealth base of the separatist Tiraspol regime and force it to resolve its conflict with Moldovan officials in Chisinau.