End to Moldova Fighting Seen
Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin and Moldovan leader Mircea Snegur said Friday that they have agreed on ways to end ethnic fighting in Moldova.
But the two men, meeting three days before a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States, stopped short of announcing a cease-fire in the former Soviet republic bordering Romania.
“We have agreed to . . . work out a mechanism for a cease-fire,” Yeltsin told Commonwealth television after talks on the fighting between Moldovan government forces and Russian-speaking separatists in the republic’s eastern Dniester region.
He said the talks had agreed “on how to stop the fighting, on creating a demarcation line and sending in neutral units there.” Snegur said that both sides had agreed to do everything possible to end the fighting and favor dialogue.
Hundreds of people have been killed in and around the self-styled Dniester republic since March. Some Russian conservatives have suggested that Moscow could intervene, saying Russia could not watch idly as its people were being killed.
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