ARMINFO News Agency
September 23, 2005

KAZAKHSTAN SHOULD CHANGE ITS POSITION ON KARABAKH CONFLICT TO ENLIST
THE SUPPORT OF ARMENIA IN OSCE

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 23. ARMINFO. “I treat with great respect to
Armenia’s position stated by Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan raising
the objection against the chairmanship of Kazakhstan to the OSCE in
2006”, the OSCE ambassador to Armenia Vladimir Pryakhin stated in an
interview to ARMINFO.

In his words, all the 55 OSCE member-states has the same status as
the OSCE decisions have been made only on the consensus basis. “If
Armenia is to be against Kazakhstan, the principle of votes consensus
maintenance will be violated, and the OSCE also will object”,
Pryakhin noted. He added that the position of Kazakhstan on some
issues, in particular, on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is not
convenient to Armenia. “If Kazakhstan changes its position, Armenia
should not object against its chairmanship to the OSCE next year”,
Pryakhin noted.