The commonwealth "For Democracy and Human Rights" unifying Transdnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia issued a joint position that reached the UN. The reason was the GUAM's proposal to introduce the issue on frozen conflictsin the UN agenda. Nezavisimaya Gazeta published Transdnistrian Foreign Minister Valery Litskay's letter which says in part. "For the first time the GUAM member states try to apply the effect of collective influence to make UN draw sanctions against unrecognized republics. Unlike the other international organizations the UN regulations provide for both appliance of economic sanctions and military involvement, so-called compulsion to peace. We have organized a memorandum and requested Russia as a guarantor state to circulate the document in the UN as well as initiate discussion of the issue with taking into account our position as well."

In Litskay's opinion the memorandum revealed the true picture of the conflicts: wars and blockades imposed by Kishinev and Tbilisi. "The facts furnished in the document are meant to trigger the mechanism of UN sanctions which will not however be targeted against Tiraspol. With Moscow's support the UN's stance on frozen conflicts has changed. As result, the accusers - Moldova and Georgia - could be transformed in the accused. Thus, these states recalled their proposal. The issue of conflicts available on the CIS territory was not raised at the UN General Assembly and it's for most part conditioned by the memorandum of the unrecognized republics. This is the first step toward the international rostrum and international recognition," the FM underscored.