EU ready to assist in Garabagh settlement

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
May 5 2006

Baku, May 4, AssA-Irada — The European Union is ready to assist
in settling the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper (Nagorno)
Garabagh, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has said.

“Intense talks are underway between the conflicting sides with
the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group,” he told a conference in
Lithuania on Thursday held as part of the summit of Baltic and Black
Sea member states.

“Some elements of a possible accord are already discernible.”

Solana added that reaching peace depends directly on the parties to
the conflict.*