SERGEY LAVROV CALLED TO CAREFUL ATTITUDE TO EXISTING FORMATS OF CONFLICT SOLUTION
PanARMENIAN.Net
05.12.2006 16:13 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ OSCE is still being used as a platform where
unilateral and politicized approaches are pushed forward regarding
to the well-known "frozen" conflicts, which do not have anything
in common with the real efforts to reach a lasting solution for
them. This announcement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov in Brussels during his speech at OSCE Foreign Ministers’
Counsel session. In his words, experience confirms: such actions only
result in growth of tension and distrust, throw back the solution
of conflicts. We should not substitute the necessity to fulfill
commitments assumed by the parties with certain reductive ideas.
"We always must follow basic principles of regional conflict
solution. Among those are respect of Helsinki Final Act, achievement
to agreements by conflicting parties, unconditional taking into
account the position of both sides, inadmissibility of hostilities,
careful attitude to the existing negotiation and peacekeeping formats,
step-by-step approach to the solution, which supposes priorities on
confidence-building measures and establishing dialog between sides;
care for the people in conflict zones not to feel isolated", pointed
out Sergey Lavrov, Russian FA Ministry press office reports.