OSCE MG HOPES FOR CREATING “NEW OPPORTUNITIES” IN KARABAKH TALKS

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.04.2006 22:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group intend to visit
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict region in May, OSCE MG French co-chair
Bernard Fassier stated in Baku April 11. Co-chairs’ trips to the
region aim at possible rapprochement of the parties to conflict,
the mediator said. He hoped that the visit will convey an impulse
to the new phase of talks. Last year the mediators did much, but
it was not managed to attain progress at the Rambouillet meeting of
the presidents, Fassier remarked. He expressed co-chairs’ hopes for
creation of “new opportunities” in the talks, which will pave way
for new meetings of the presidents.

The French co-chair stated that he had arrived in Baku with specific
proposals, but he could not reveal these. There is nothing especially
new about them, he added. In his words, The MG can only provide new
ideas to help attain peace. The responsibility to find a middle line
at the talks lies on the parties of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
Fassier underscored. In the former half of the day Fassier had talks
with Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov. The meeting was held behind closed
doors and no statements were made after it, reports Trend.