CHANGE OF CURRENT FORMAT OF MEDIATORIAL MISSION ON SETTLEMENT OF NK CONFLICT IS INEXPEDIENT – RENE VAN DER LINDEN
Author: R.Abdullayev

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
April 10 2006

“Both Azerbaijan and Armenia are members of the Council of Europe (ÑÅ)
and we are interested in advancement of the negotiations on settlement
of the Nagonorno-Katrabakh conflict between the countries,” Rene Van
der Linden, the President of PACE, stated at a news conference on
opening of the PACE spring session on Monday, the correspondent of
Trend in Strasbourg reports.

Linden noted there was no progress during the last meeting of the
Azerbaijani-Armenian presidents (Rambue, France -‘Trend’ ).

“Nevertheless, in our opinion the sides must come to the peaceful
solution of the problem in the final,” he stressed.

Besides, Linden said it was wrong to change the current format of the
mediatorial mission. “We will wait for completion of the negotiations
through the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group,” he underlined. The
President of PACE said that replace of the mediatorial format of the
OSCE Minsk Group to the CE format was inexpedient.

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