NKR FM: ICG’S ATTEMPTS TO ACCUSE OSCE MG IN NK PEACE PROCESS MONOPOLIZATION PROMPT PERPLEXITY

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 27 2006

YEREVAN, March 27. /ARKA/. International Crisis Group’s attempts
to accuse OSCE Minsk Group in Karabakh peace process monopolization
prompt perplexity, Irina Beglaryan, Chief of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Foreign Ministry’s unit in charge of politics, said Friday commenting
on the Group’s report published earlier this week on European Union
role in South Caucasus conflicts settlement.

“Minsk Group’s activity is run in accordance with OSCE mandate,
not to satisfy separate diplomats’ or countries’ whim”, she said.

Beglaryan also said that OSCE Minsk Group has gained certain experience
for 14 years of its peacekeeping activity resulted in maintaining
peace in the conflict-stricken region. In her opinion, the Group is
the most adequate format for Karabakh conflict settlement.

At the same time, she stressed that neither current format nor possible
involvement of European mediators in peacemaking process can compensate
Nagorno Karabakh absence from negotiations.