Armenian politicians comment on OSCE mediators’ visit to region

Mediamax news agency
26 May 06

Yerevan, 26 May: Leaders of political parties represented in the
Armenian National Assembly have commented on the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairmen’s visits to Baku and Yerevan on 24-25 May.

The head of the parliamentary faction of the [pro-government]
Republican Party of Armenia, Galust Saakyan, described today as
“positive” the participation of high-ranking diplomats from Russia,
the USA and France in the talks.

Meanwhile, he expressed his confidence that the final resolution of
the Karabakh conflict would not be reached in 2006.

The leader of the opposition Justice bloc, Stepan Demirchyan, believes
that the visit of the high-ranking diplomats testified to the
existence of a “task to speed up the negotiation process”.

The head of the [pro-government Armenian Revolutionary Federation]

Dashnaktsutyun faction, Grayr Karapetyan, said that he “sees nothing
extraordinary” in the mediators’ visit. He said that the decision on
the settlement of the conflict should be made by the parties to the
conflict and that it cannot be imposed on them from the outside.