BAKU SAYS OSCE SHOULD STEP UP EFFORTS IN SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
February 8, 2007 Thursday 2:58 PM MSK

Azerbaijan sees the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) as an effective organization for settling the Karabakh conflict
and wants its efforts to increase, Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker
Oktai Asadov said at a meeting with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Chair
Goran Lennmarker in Baku on Thursday.

If the OSCE expands its activity, the Karabakh problem could soon be
settled, he said.

"Although the military potential of Azerbaijan, which participates
in a number of international projects and is Europe’s energy partner,
is much bigger than Armenia’s, we are for a peaceful solution to the
conflict," Asadov said.

Lennmarker’s visit to Southern Caucasus countries started on February
4. First he visited Armenia, then Georgia.