OSCE MG Co-Chair Adopt Joint Statement On Outcomes Of Visits To Arme

OSCE MG CO-CHAIR ADOPT JOINT STATEMENT ON OUTCOMES OF VISITS TO ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN

Regnum, Russia
Nov 23 2006

Minsk Group OSCE co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and Bernard Fassier
(France) have adopted a joint statement on outcomes of their visits
to Armenia and Azerbaijan held on November 21-23. As Day.az reports
citing the French embassy in Baku, the statement stresses that an
agreement was reached to hold a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents and foreign ministers during the CIS summit in Minsk.

According to the source, the statement also says: "The co-chairs had
meetings with presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan and the
foreign ministers as well. As a result of the meetings held in an
open and effective manner, the two presidents accepted co-chairs’
offer to hold the meeting at the forthcoming CIS summit in Minsk.

Participants of both meetings (the presidents – REGNUM) said that
discussions held by foreign ministers in Moscow, Paris and Brussels
in October-November were resulting in terms of achieving progress in
the negotiation process."

At the same time, the statement says "the co-chairs hope that at the
meeting of the presidents and the foreign ministers in Minsk a step
forward will be taken grounding on principles approved by G8 at the
meeting in Saint Petersburg in July."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS