Moldova Separatist Negotiator, Fearing Arrest, Won't Meet in Government-Held Areas

FILE - Vitaly Ignatiev, then the acting foreign minister of Transnistria, is pictured in Berlin, June 3, 2016. He said Jan. 26, 2024, that his team would no longer attend talks on Moldova's future in areas under government control.

The chief negotiator for Moldova's Russian-backed separatist Transniestria region said Friday that his team would no longer attend talks on the country's future in areas under government control because he feared arrest.