THE SIDES CAN BE PLEASED BY 80%

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[11:54 am] 12 April, 2006

The OSCE Minsk group French co-chair Bernard Fassier will arrive in
Armenia from Baku today. During the concluding press conference in
Baku he said, “We cannot take decisions instead of the two states. The
decision taken by us can cause serious problems as no way of peaceful
settlement can fully justify the expectations of both sides. But I
can say that there is a way out which can justify the expectations of
the sides by 80%. But the final decision is to be made by the heads
of the countries.”

The regional visit of Bernard Fassier is to be discussed during the
Moscow meeting of the co-chairs, agency “Trend” reports. After the
meeting the Minsk group US co-chair Steven Mann will arrive in the
region. Till the end of April the Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov
will come to the region too.

At the beginning of May the co-chairs will meet in Moscow and discussed
the April meetings. Later on they will visit the region together. The
aim of the visit is to prepare the new meeting of the Armenian and
Azeri Presidents the date of which is not yet known.

After that the co-chairs will represent new approaches towards the
peaceful settlement of the conflict to the Presidents.