OSCE Vows to Work Intensively on Conflict Resolution Issues

Civil Georgia, Georgia
Dec 7 2004

Solomon Passy, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and the Bulgarian Foreign
Minister, said in his closing statement at the OSCE Ministerial Council
in Sofia on December 7, that the organization will work intensively
to solve the conflicts in the post-Soviet space.

“In the months and years ahead, we will continue to work
intensively to achieve lasting settlements in Georgia, Moldova and
Nagorno-Karabakh. Courageous decisions will be required from all the
parties concerned and the OSCE must remain fully engaged,” Solomon
Passy said.

In his remarks to the Ministerial Council, U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell said on December 7 that “a new push from the OSCE” is
needed to solve frozen conflicts.