ARMENIAN POLITICAL ANALYST THINKS OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS SHOULD RESIGN

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 17 2006

YEREVAN, July 17. /ARKA/. If OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs say their
imagination is exhausted, they should resign, political analyst Suren
Zolyan said Friday at a press conference in Yerevan.

He thinks if Minsk Group Co-Chairs are not able to fulfill their
mission, presidents of three countries – France, Russia and the United
States – should withdraw them and appoint other persons to these posts.

However, Zolyan doesn’t think the format should be changed, since
there are no other organizations ready to bear such a responsibility,
especially taking into account the fact that the situation is the
troubled region is not stable yet.

Earlier, American Co-Chair Matthew Bryza said the Minsk Group Co-Chairs
exhausted their imagination. He said the Co-Chair have decided to
take a summer brake to let Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents take
a breath. In his words, they are waiting for new proposals from the
conflicting sides.

Bryza said the Co-Chairs had already done whatever possible to settle
the conflict. At the same time, they are ready to keep mediating the
settlement and have no intention to abandon the process.

OSCE Minsk Group was set up in 1992 for mediating Karabakh conflict.

Russia, Franca and United States share the Group chairmanship now.

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From: Baghdasarian