Lennmarker: There is a ‘golden’ opportunity to settle conflict

04.07.2005 12:51

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – “There is no alternative to a peaceful solution. In
fact there is an urgent need to solve the conflict in order to end the
personal, economic and social suffering on both sides,” says Swedish
MP Goran Lennmarker, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special
Representative on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, according to a
Euro-Reporters.com report.

The armed spat is far from frozen, according to Lennmarker. “Several
people are killed along the line-of-contact every year,” says the
Swede.

Lennmarker was speaking yesterday in Washington at the OSCE’s
Parliamentary Assembly annual session. Lennmarker still remains
optimistic of the chancesfor a peace settlement and talks of ‘golden
opportunities’ and ‘win-win concepts’. Lennmarker says OSCE
parliamentarians from Armenia and Azerbaijan have also contributed to
dialogue.

“Once a peace agreement has been finalized by the two Governments, the
parliamentary dimension becomes invaluable in informing the public and
in ensuring the implementation. It is of utmost importance that
networks of Members of Parliaments already exist and stand ready to
take on these tasks.”

The Azerbaijani delegation was planning to submit its own report based
on the one made by David Atkinson at the winter session of the
Assembly but the Assembly parliamentarians turned it down.