Ion Solonenco
Brigadier General Ion Solonenco (18 January 193512 August 2022) was a senior officer in the Moldovan Ground Forces. In 1996, he held the position of Deputy Minister of National Security. He was then appointed advisor to the general director of the Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova. On 2 February 1999, Solonenco was appointed co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission (JCC). The JCC was created in 1992 immediately after the suspension of the armed conflict between Moldova and Transnistria, it is made up of delegations from Moldova, Transnistria and Russia and the representatives of Ukraine, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) participate in the work of the JCC as observers. On 12 January 2005, President Vladimir Voronin awarded Solonenco the Order of Work Glory, for special merits and high professionalism in ensuring state security and prodigious organizational and public activity. Solonenco died in Chișinău on 12 August 2022, at the age of 87. References

1935 births
2022 deaths
Moldovan generals
People from Dubăsari District, Transnistria
Recipients of the Order of Work Glory
Recipients of the Order of the Republic (Moldova)