The United States supports a comprehensive settlement of the Transnistria conflict, and welcomes this week’s agreement to allow vehicles from Transnistria to legally travel on roads outside of Moldova.

According to a Press Statement of the United States Department of State, this will bring real benefits to the lives of people on both sides of the Nistru River. United States Department of State urges all sides to capitalize on this agreement and implement the three remaining “Package of Eight” deliverables that the sides reaffirmed in the 2017 Vienna Protocol.

This is the only path to a settlement of one of Europe’s longest-running conflicts. Any such settlement must be based on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova, with a special status for Transnistria within Moldova’s internationally recognized borders.