Great Britain is Prepared to Assist OSCE Minsk Group in Nagorno-Karabakh Situation

TREND, Azerbaijan
Nov 9 2006

Great Britain is prepared to assist the OSCE Minsk Group with regards
to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, the Special Envoy of Great Britain for
South Caucasus, Bryan Fall, stated on 8 November in Yerevan during
the meeting with the Armenian Defense Minister, Serj Sarkisyan,
Trend reports with reference to News-Armenia.

"Fall informed the Armenian Minister that Great Britain was
prepared to assist the OSCE Minsk Group to peacefully resolve the
Armenian-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," the Press Secretary
of the Armenian Defense Minister, Colonel Seyran Shakhsuvaryan,
informed News-Armenia quoting Fall.

According to him, the negotiators discussed the meeting of the
Azerbaijani and Armenian Defense Ministers held on 20 October in the
Ijevan-Gazakh section of the Azerbaijani-Armenian Defense Ministers
pointing out the benefits of the mutual meetings between both parties
in maintaining the ceasefire regime.

During the meeting, Fall also remarked upon the fact that the
conference "South Caucasus: perception and challenges" organized by
the British Center "Wilson Park" for the first time in this region,
is held in Armenia.

The participants of the 3-day conference which began on 7 November
discussed the problems and possibilities of South Caucasus, as well
as the tasks of the government and entrepreneurs in developing the
economy and stimulating the investments.