Miron Gagauz stated once again that normal functioning of the Moldovan railroad network will only be possible when it gets back its legal property [railroad stations, depots, repair enterprises, rolling stock, etc.] usurped by the secessionist Tiraspol administration in 2004.
"We have never objected to a proportional distribution of CFE incomes between the two Dniester River banks. Yet before the property usurping, the two sides had worked out and agreed upon a mechanism of such distribution. But Sergei Martsinko [the Transnistrian railroad company director] now stands up with a statement in which he reduces the CFE reunification problem to merely a resumption of traffic on a concrete branch, which is not one and the same. Besides this, he doesn't say a word about returning the CFE property presently used by Transnistria - worth 560 million lei (nearly US$ 50 million)", said Miron Gagauz.
In his words, the Martsinko's statements are but a pure provocation, for he is not an official figure and has not been authorized to make such proposals.
"All statements about CFE property and its functioning order, and about the conflict are not within the scope of competence of either Sergei Martsinko or Miron Gagauz. Accords of such kind are to be achieved at a higher level - ministerial or even governmental", presumes the CFE Director General.
It is his conviction that the Martsinko's appeal to restore a full-scale railroad circulation via Transnistria for economic reasons is but the Transnistrian authorities' attempt to control situation in Moldova and to dictate conditions to Chisinau by blocking freight traffic via Bendery station.
"All this did happen already. Moldova has many a time paid a price for the Transnistrian leader's demarches. Only the latest delay in Transnistria in 2006 of three trains composed of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarus and Kazakhstan freight cars cost over a million Swiss francs to the CFM", said the company chief.
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