Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
June 2 2006

Stationing of peacekeepers in Garabagh possible – Azeri official

Baku, June 1, AssA-Irada

The issue of stationing peacekeeping forces in the Upper (Nagorno)
Garabagh conflict zone is currently on the agenda of talks on
settling the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, the Azeri Foreign Ministry
spokesman Tahir Taghizada said commenting on Russian Defense Minister
Sergey Ivanov’s statement in this regard.
He said the 8-10 `components’ currently on the negotiating table
include a plan of comprehensive activities on providing security.
`From this standpoint, the stationing of peacekeepers in the conflict
zone is not ruled out.’
Taghizada noted that under the preliminary agreement reached, the
contingent of these forces could not include servicemen from regional
states or the countries that co-chair the mediating OSCE Minsk Group
– Russia, France and the United States.*