FINNISH FM CHAIRING AT EU ASSURES ‘WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY’ IS STILL OPEN

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Oct 2 2006

The Finnish Foreign Minister, Erkki Tuomioja, who leads the European
Union’s ‘trio’, stated in Yerevan on 2 October that the EU supports
the efforts taken by the OSCE

Minsk Group regarding the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and stated that ‘the window of
opportunity’ for the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
is still open, Trend reports citing Mediamax.

Addressing a news conference in Yerevan, Tuomioja announced that
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, who will begin touring the region
on October, visited Helsinki last week and informed the EU on the
situation and informed the EU Chairmanship on the situation of the
negotiation process.

"The window of opportunity for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict
is still open and we ask both parties to take this opportunity,"
Tuomioja stated.