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BALANCE IN THE REGION DEPENDS ON THE SETTLEMENT OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT
[01:15 pm] 15 December, 2006

`The Assembly regrets that, despite the three meetings between the
Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan organised in 2006 and the
increased efforts by the Co-Presidents of the Minsk Group, no
significant progress can be registered to date towards a peaceful
settlement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’, says the Provisional
version of the draft resolution `Honouring of obligations and
commitments by Armenia’ adopted by PACE’s Monitoring Committee at its
meeting in Paris on 13 December 2006.

The report will be discussed the the January session. It adds that
`it is in the interest of both countries to end this conflict as soon
as possible, ruling out the use of force, in accordance with the
commitment entered into at the time of their accession. Without a
final settlement, prospects for stability and prosperity in the entire
region remain precarious’.

`The Assembly itself is committed, notably through the "Ad Hoc
Committee of the Bureau on the implementation of Resolution 1416
(2005) on the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by
the OSCE Minsk Conference", to help engender a positive negotiating
climate and foster dialogue at the parliamentary level and between the
populations of the two countries concerned, and also with the
population of Nagorno-Karabakh, while refraining from interfering in
the negotiation process’.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress