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February 1, 2005 Tuesday

Stepanakert ready to cooperate with OSCE mission

By Tigran Liloyan

YEREVAN

Stepanakert is “ready to create all necessary conditions” for the
work of the mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) and “provide a possibility for visiting any region
of interest to the monitoring group,” President of the unrecognised
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Arkady Gukasyan said receiving the
OSCE mission members who arrived in Stepanakert on Sunday.

According to him, Nagorno-Karabakh authorities are open for
cooperation with the OSCE mission” in collecting of facts about
Armenian settlements in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

Gukasyan also expressed the hope that the OSCE mission report will
promote the establishment of a constructive atmosphere around the
Karabakh conflict peaceful settlement.

According to the mission head, director of the OSCE department in the
German Foreign Ministry Emily Haber, the mission is rather of
technical nature and does not pursue the goal of giving political
assessment to the situation.

In accordance with the trip plan, the OSCE mission every day will
visit one of seven regions of Azerbaijan occupied by the Armenian
side as a result of combat operations of 1992-1994.

Along with experts from Germany, Italy, Finland and Sweden the
monitoring group also comprises co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group of
Russia, France and the United States.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress