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PMR's government spends $24M on roads, and not a dime from Moldova
Without funding from Moldova or anywhere else, the government of Pridnestrovie has started an ambitious program of road repairs and repaving of the country's streets. For the remainder of 2006, a total of USD $24 million has been assigned for road maintaince.
In a program which has already started, PMR is spending $24 million for the remainder of 2006 on road repairsDUBOSSARY (Tiraspol Times) - With an investment of twenty four million dollars in infrastructure maintenance, road repairs and new construction is now taking place throughout the length of Pridnestrovie.
The nation's government recently embarked on an ambitious program of maintaining the logistical infrastructure of Pridnestrovie. As the only authority in control of the country's roads and transportation system, state and local governments in Pridnestrovie make an effort to ensure good upkeep of the entire republic.
On 30 May 2006, the infrastructure committee of Pridnestrovie's parliament decided to dedicate a little over 200 million PMR rubles to the financing of the program (approx. 24 million US dollars). The committee, which examines the conditions of the country's infrastructure and assigns a budget for road maintenance, oversees the work and reports back to parliament on the results.
The current budget for road repairs will be spent on 1,278 km of roads, including a total of 179 km on a large number of bridges; both inside the country itself and bridges over the Dniester River, on its border with Moldova.
All responsibility for the PMR infrastructure (including the bridges over the Dniester) is exclusively in the hands of Pridnestrovie. Its neighbor, Moldova, is not participating in the road repair work and maintenance or the bridge upkeep ... neither with manpower, machines or any kind of funding.
The Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica, also known as Transnistria, formally declared independence in 1990 and was not part of Moldova when the latter declared its own independence one year later. As a separate and independent country it fulfills the requirements for statehood under international law but has not yet been recognized by the international community.
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The government of Pridnestrovie has proposed a solution on Permanent Status Negotiations that will be based on consensus with Moldova. Its government sees little or no point in signing an unequal treaty which mostly favors just one of the sides, its Foreign Ministry said. The dispute over Pridnestrovie's territory has lasted almost 18 years. . . 
