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Moldova's government has called on Moscow to withdraw troops and weapons from its separatist Transdniester region. The Foreign Ministry appealed to Russia on August 5 to pull out its 1,500 troops and thousands of tons of weapons from Transdniester in accordance with commitments made at a 1999 summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

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