EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN SOUTH CAUCASUS: EU DOES NOT INTEND TO CHANGE FORMAT OF OSCE MG

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 6 2006

YEREVAN, April 6. /ARKA/. The EU does not intend to change the
format of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) engaged in settlement of Karabakh
conflict, as the newly-appointed EU Special Representative in South
Caucasus Peter Semneby told journalists during the press conference
in Yerevan.

In his words, the OSCE MG format and its activities on settlement of
Karabakh conflict quite satisfy the EU.

“EU is ready to assist Armenia and Azerbaijan in establishment of
relations after coming to a peaceful agreement”, Semneby emphasized.

In his turn the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanian
emphasized that recent stirring up of USA in the negotiation process
makes an impression that official Washington intends to act beyond
the format of the OSCE MG.

However Oskanian emphasized that “it is absolutely not like that”.

“All peace-talks around Karabakh conflict, with American side as well,
are within format of the Minsk Group”, Oskanian stated.