Vladimir Socor
The “5+2” forum on Transnistria was designed in 2005 based on the old model of the European Concert, updated as Euro-Atlantic: to settle a local conflict through negotiations among great powers. Similarly, the negotiating formats on the conflicts in Karabakh (1994–2020), Donbas (2014–2022), as well as Abkhazia and South Ossetia (2008 to date) also corresponded to the concert-of-powers model. Russia should have been excluded from this concert at the latest by 2014 (initial invasion of Ukraine) and has finally excluded itself with its re-invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Russo-Ukrainian War Should Doom the ‘5+2’ Negotiations on Transnistria (Part Two) – Jamestown