OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS INTEND TO ORGANIZE MEETINGS OF FMS AND PRESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA IN NEAR FUTURE
Author: A.Ismaylova

TREND, Azerbaijan
Oct 2 2006

The visit of the OSCE Minsk Group to the region of Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is to restore the direct contacts between Azerbaijan and
Armenia, the co-chairs of OSCE Minks Group told a Press-Conference
on October 2 in Baku,Trend reports.

American co-chair Mathew Mryza stressed that after the summer holiday,
the intensification is once again observed in the activities of
the co-chairs, and over the recent three weeks the co-chairs have
hold three meetings with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov. Touching on the status of the occupied Lachin and Kalbajar
districts of Azerbaijan, Bryza stressed that it is not as easy dilemma.

The Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov added that presently these
details are being discussed in the level of foreign ministers. But
the primary goal is to restore the direct contacts, and it has been
implemented in Azerbaijan. According to him, the co-chairs will depart
to Yerevan on October 3 and later Nagorno-Karabakh after which the
place and date of the next meeting of the foreign ministers will be
defined. In addition, the meeting of the presidents is planned.

The French co-chair Bernar Face the meeting with the Azerbaijani
President was open and irreproachable and such types of meetings
assist in the settlement of the problem. He stressed that after
meeting of the presidents in Rambue and Bucharest, the elements of key
principles of the regulation of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict continue to
be agreed. Face underlined that there is such an opinion in Paris,
Moscow and Washington that the military way for the settlement of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is impossible.

Touching on the statements of the Armenian foreign minister Vardan
Oskanyan regarding the possibilities of changing the format of talks,
the co-chairs stressed that its is unacceptable. But expressing the
attitude towards the GUAM countries’ including the issue regarding
frozen conflicts in the agenda of the U.N. Assembly General, the
settlement of the conflict within OSCE may be the fairest.