VICE SPEAKER OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SUGGESTS WORKING OUT AN ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI RESOLUTION ON NK

ArmInfo News Agency
Oct 5 2005

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 5. ARMINFO. ‘The report of OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly Special Representative for Nagorny Karabakh Goran Lenmarker
at the recent OSCE PA Summit in Washington was brave and meeting the
realities. It arouse the interest of Armenian and Azerbaijan public,’
Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Vahan Hovhannissyan said during
his meeting with Goran Lenmarker. To note, Mr. Goran Lenmarker is on
a visit to Armenia.

The press-service of the Armenian Parliament reports Vahan
Hovhannissyan as saying that due to the propaganda of the report by
the Armenian party, the report had a wide response in Armenia. All
the political forces in Armenia are aware of the necessity for
mutual compromises for peace settlement of the conflict. Meanwhile,
one can hardly find a political force in Azerbaijan that would be
ready for equal compromises, the vice speaker said. If such force
is found in Azerbaijan due to the efforts of OSCE, it may have a
positive result, Hovhannissyan said. He appreciated the direct talks
between the Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations in Brussels on the
initiative of Goran Lenmarket as well as the recent meeting of the
two delegations and the OSCE Minsk Group co- chairmen in Washington.

The vice speaker proposed forming a working group of the Armenian and
Azerbaijani representatives and the delegates of OSCE PA to work out a
joint resolution. Hovhannissyan proposed the two delegations to hold
a joint discussion of the possibility of the joint resolution on the
eve of OSCE PA Summit in Vienna. It can be the first step suggested
by “the new neighbors of the EU.” Goran Lenmarker supported Vahan
Hovhannissyan’s initiative. Regarding the relations of Turkey-EU,
G.Lenmarker thinks the talks of Ankara and Brussels will be useful
for Armenia as well. Meanwhile, the blockade of Armenia’s borders
contradicts to the ideology of the European Union, Goran Lenmarker
said.