Russia is interested in defrosting the negotiations on political settlement of the Transnistria problem and working out a special, reliably guaranteed status for Transnistria with the observance of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, reads the press advisory issued by the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the results of the meeting the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin and First Deputy Secretary of the Russian Federation's Security Council Yury Zoubakov had here with Mark Tkachuk, the Home Policy Advisor to the Moldovan President, and with Moldovan Minister of Reintegration Vasile Sova.
The document said that the Russian Federation, acting as a co-mediator in the negotiation process and as a guarantor of its results, consistently abides by the opinion that there is no reasonable alternative to attaining an all-out conflict settlement and to achieving status accords through a direct contact of the equal-right sides to the conflict.

The Russian party reaffirmed its readiness to assist in every possible way to the Chisinau and Tiraspol representatives in their resumption of such work, including on the basis of available previous achievements and ideas.

The Russian foreign ministry presumes this would be a contribution to the joint efforts by the rest 2 co-mediators - Ukraine and the OSCE, and by observers - the European Union and the United States.