NOW IS TIME FOR SIDES TO REACH AGREEMENT ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT BASIC PRINCIPLES
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.05.2006 19:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Having visited Armenia, representatives of co-chair
countries of the OSCE Minsk Group for settlement of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict issued a joint statement for the press, which
specifically says, “We, the representatives at the Deputy Minister
level of the Russian Federation, the United States and France,
together with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman in Office, have come together
in this joint diplomatic mission because of the need to promote a
peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and because now
is the time for the sides to reach agreement on the basic principles
of the settlement.
We were received by President Kocharian and met earlier with Foreign
Minister Oskanian. As we did yesterday in Baku, we have discussed
important aspects of a future settlement. We have worked to create
the conditions for a meeting of the two presidents in the near
future. We have stressed the belief of our nations and, more widely,
of the international community that the conflict can be resolved in
no other way than a peaceful one. Both countries should, moreover,
prepare their publics for peace and not war.”
The Statement notes that discussions, both in Yerevan and in Baku,
were constructive. “A joint mission such as this one is a special
event. It must be taken as a sign of the seriousness with which we
approach the issue and in particular, a belief that we are at the
point where a mutually beneficial agreement is achievable.
What happens now will be up to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
We leave with hopes and expectations of progress,” says the Joins
Statement of the OSCE MG co-chair countries.