Litkai met here with professor Shigeo Mutsushika of Shizuoka University (Japan), and said, in particular, that "a country that has lost a war cannot put conditions".
He believes attempts to resolve the Transnistria conflict invariably fail due to the Moldovan side's unwillingness to share real plenary powers with Tiraspol in the framework of a common state.
In his words, Moldova and Transnistria get farther and farther apart in their political, economic and cultural orientations, and while the Transnistrians consider themselves to be a part of the Russian socio-cultural area, the Moldovan authorities have set course for integration into Western structures.
He compared the Transnistrian situation with "the Taiwan variant". Having no international recognition, the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic develops as an independent state with a powerful economy. Presently, he said, the Transnistrians see no other way of defending their rights but through consolidating their state independence in all spheres.
Valery Litkai emphasized that political parties in Transnistria, despite their internal differences, are unanimous on the key question of Transnistria's political vector - towards the republic's state independence.
He said, the leaders of Transnistrian parties and the business groups backing them have a purely realistic look on things: "They realize that once within Moldova, the Transnistrian businesses will lose all possibilities of free economic development. Chisinau regards as illegitimate the privatization deeds made in Transnistria, and is ready to withdraw from investors the property they have obtained in Transnistria".