AzerTag, Azerbaijan
June 21 2005

GUAM STATEMENT URGES OSCE TO INCREASE EFFORTS ON SETTLEMENT OF
NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
[June 21, 2005, 23:08:22]

According to the Press-center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Azerbaijan, on June 21 a statement on behalf of the GUAM
member-states was made by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign
Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Mr. A.
Andrei Stratan at the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference in
Vienna.

Touching upon the conflicts taking place in GUAM member-countries,
the Minister said in particular, that those `existing in the Eastern
districts of Moldova, Abkhaz and Tskhinvali regions of Georgia and
Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan continue to threaten security
and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area’, and called for
`intensification of international settlement efforts, including
within OSCE, in accordance with the norms and principles of
international law, first of all those pertaining territorial
integrity and inviolability of international borders.’

The statement further says: `Confirming our full and unequivocal
support to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the
basis of respect to territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, we welcome
activization of negotiations between the parties along the lines of
results of the so-called Prague meetings, with the view to establish
peace and cooperation between Armenian and Azerbaijani communities in
the Nagorno-Karabakh region within the Republic of Azerbaijan, and
urge the OSCE and especially its Minsk Group to increase its efforts
to this end.’