Regnum, Russia
March 18 2006

Chances are high that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be settled
in 2006 (Semneby, EU Special Representative for South Caucasus)

Baku, 18 March 2006 (Regnum – website) – “To be sure in rightful
coordination of initiatives on settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
I will regularly keep in touch with co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group,” EU Special Representative for South Caucasus Peter Semneby
has announced.

According to him, chances are high that the conflict will be settled
in 2006: “Taking into consideration that the latest meeting of the
Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents failed to justify hopes, it is
difficult to say how strongly these hopes are bound to the reality.

For closer examination of the situation I should visit Azerbaijan and
Armenia, exchange opinions with the co-chairs. But if I had not been
so sure in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, I would not have
given my consent to the appointment,” Day.az quotes Semneby as saying.
From: Baghdasarian