Pan Armenian News
YURI MERZLYAKOV: OSCE INTERESTED IN COOPERATION WITH PACE
23.09.2005 04:09
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The OSCE Minsk Group and the PACE Subcommittee on Nagorno
Karabakh can cooperate on a number of issues, OSCE MG Russian Co-Chair Yuri
Merzlyakov stated when commenting on the Subcommittee sitting held in Paris
last week. `The OSCE MG Co-Chairs mediate and advance proposals while PACE
can mobilize public opinion in both states for achieving a compromise
essential for the settlement of the conflict. PACE can also encourage the
conflicting parting to honor the commitments to the CoE, one of them being
the resolution of the Karabakh conflict,’ the Russian diplomat said. Yuri
Merzlyakov voiced opinion that the CoE and PACE can take the control over
the ceasefire and urge the states to fulfill the obligations. In his words,
`frequent militaristic statements do not promote the settlement of the
conflict.’ `We are ready to share authority with PACE to prevent statements
of the kind’, he noted adding that the OSCE MG Co-Chairs are concerned over
the increase of the military budget of Armenia and Azerbaijan, since it can
have a negative impact upon the peaceful settlement process, Mediamax
reported.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress