Azeri speaker calls for more active OSCE role in Karabakh settlement

Trend news agency
21 Jan 05

BAKU

Azerbaijan stands for a solution to the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict on
the basis of the principle of the territorial integrity of states and
the norms of international law, Azerbaijan Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov
has said at a meeting with the special envoy of the OSCE
chairman-in-office, Andrzej Kasprzyk.

Negotiations are under way for the solution of the problem at the
level of international organizations, foreign ministers and
parliaments, he said.

“The Council of Europe has expressed its attitude to the issue several
times and a report on Nagornyy Karabakh will be heard at the winter
session [of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] on 25
January. The OSCE Minsk Group has been dealing with the settlement of
the conflict for more than 10 years. But, unfortunately, despite the
lengthy period of time, positive results have not been achieved
yet. We think that the OSCE should increase its activity and enhance
its role,” the speaker stressed.

Confirming that the negotiations have not yielded any fruits yet,
Kasprzyk said one can think after the last meeting of the [Azerbaijani
and Armenian] foreign ministers [in Prague] that there will be
success. I believe that the parliaments should also increase their
activities in the issue and the negotiations should be continued, he
added.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress