“I came to hear what problems and challenges you face and how the United States can help,” Brink said during a meeting in Tiraspol with the acting head of foreign affairs of the self-proclaimed republic, Vitaly Ignatyev.
The sides discussed a wide range of issues of mutual concern.
Bridget Brink expressed strong interest in obtaining an “objective” picture of the situation in the unrecognized republic.
A sliver of land in eastern Moldova, Russian-speaking Transnistria, broke away from the Moldovan state in the early 1990s after a brief war.
With the conflict “frozen”, Transnistria remains home to over a 1,000 Russian peacekeeping troops.
