Moldova Parliament May Create Special Commission on Dniester

A group of MPs has proposed setting up a special committee to address the situation on the Dniester

A special committee could be set up in Parliament to examine the situation regarding the decline in the flow of the River Dniester and to assess the conditions for supplying water to the river basin from the Novodnestrovsk reservoir in Ukraine.

Valeriu Muduc

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The draft resolution was tabled by a group of Communist MPs. The committee is set to examine the situation regarding the low flow of the Dniester, assess the water supply conditions from the Novodnistrovsk reservoir and, together with the Ukrainian side, identify the necessary solutions, taking into account the national interests of both states.

The committee will be able to hear from representatives of public authorities and specialists in the field, as well as to examine the situation directly on site and exchange information with the Ukrainian authorities.

Following its work, the committee is to draw up a report on the results of the parliamentary inquiry and submit it to Parliament within 30 days.

The authors of the initiative note that the Dniester River supplies drinking water to approximately 80 per cent of the population of the Republic of Moldova, including the municipality of Chișinău, and consider the situation regarding the river’s flow to be critical.

The draft resolution is currently a legislative initiative and is due to go through the established parliamentary procedure.

Valeriu Muduc, chair of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Green Transition, previously stated during a TV programme that the public needs to know “what is on the table” in the discussions within the Dniester Commission:

“From my point of view, we do not have any information about what these discussions with the Ukrainian side are based on. It is true that the country is at war, and we have a situation where martial law has been imposed there, but we would have liked the decisions taken by the legislature and the executive of the Republic of Moldova to be based on concrete figures and real data.”

This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.The translation was also reviewed by the Logos Press editorial team.

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