The speaker of Transdniester's Supreme Soviet Yevgeny Shevchuk said on May 22 that the breakaway region plans to follow in Montenegro's footsteps and hold an independence referendum. "Sooner or later we will achieve a situation in which it will be possible to settle the Transdniester conflict simply through a referendum" he added. "The people of Transdniester have the right to their own opinion, too, and the international community must formulate standard principles and approaches to such conflict situations around the world" Shevchuk said.
