OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS EXPECT RESPONSE OF YEREVAN AND BAKU ON NEW NK PROPOSALS

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
May 11 2006

The OSCE Minsk group (OSCE MG) Co-Chairs wait for the response of
Yerevan and Baku on the mediators’ “new proposals” during RA and AR
FMs’ meeting in Strasbourg May 18 – 19, the OSCE MG Russian Co-Chair
Yuri Merzlyakov stated, REGNUM reports.

Having refused to comment on the essence of the “new proposals”, the
Russian mediator remarked “they contain some new elements, mainly,
concretization and detailing of the proposals put forward before”.

“They have already been delivered to the conflict parties by a French
Co-Chairman Bernard Fassier”, Merzlyakov said. He also informed the
mediators’ visit to the region had been scheduled for mid-May.