OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRMEN INTERESTED IN ORGANIZATION OF PRESIDENTS’
REGULAR MEETING WITHIN AS SHORT TERMS AS POSSIBLE

YEREVAN, APRIL 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. “The negotiation
process of the Karabakh conflict settlement continues, it is not
dead,” Bernard Fassier, the French Co-Chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group
stated at the April 13 press-conference. He confessed that of course,
what the Co-Charmen expected, did not take place in Rambouillet:
“Before the Rambouillet meeting we have a non-filled glass and have a
hope to fill more than half of it, what did not succeed. But one must
take into account that the glass did not turn over.” Fassier
emphasized the great activeness round the settlement process,
mentioning the great number of the Co-Chairmen’s visit to the
region. The French diplomate did not exclude that the next week, after
the Easter, his American partner Steven Mann will visit the
region. B.Fassier did not excluded, either, that he will again visit
the region in late April, early May: “How you may understand, all
those visits are paid not on private initiative, those are visits
regulated and agreed at the level of the Co-Chair countries’
capitals.” He informed that he leaves for Moscow on April 14 where his
meeting with Russian Co-Chairman Yuri Merzlyakov and Deputy Foreign
Minister of Russia Karasin will take place. The three Co-Chairmen’s
consulting meeting in Moscow is scheduled for early May, after what
the Co-Chairmen will together visit the region. Bernard Fassier
mentioned that the goal of such an activization of the Co-Chairmen’s
work is organization of the regular meeting of the Presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan soon. “We want again to create a possibility
for the two Presidents’ meeting, naturally, now I can say neither time
nor place of the meeting: nothing is known yet,” the French diplomate
said. According to him, if a possibility is created to organize the
meeting in June, then it will be good, and if not, then the
Co-Chairmen have a hope to organize the meeting in July.

According to Bernard Fassier, it depends on schedule of activity of
themselves, Presidents, and of the fact what an agreement the
Presidents will reach: “In the Co-Chairmen’s opinion, as soon the
meeting takes place, as good it will be.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress