Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
February 9, 2007 Friday 6:38 PM MSK

Kosovo settlement should not be seen as precedent for Karabakh –
Lennmarker

The Kosovo settlement can not be applied to the Karabakh conflict,
said Goran Lennmarker, the president of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly (OSCE PA).

Speaking at a Friday meeting with representatives of Azerbaijan’s
Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society in Baku, Lennmarker
said that the Kosovo issue, regardless of its outcome, is not a
precedent for the Karabakh problem. Each conflict is an individual
case, and just as the Kosovo conflict is being settled taking into
account its background factors, the Nagorno-Karabakh problem should
be resolved in its context. The processes occurring in any country in
the world should not affect the settlement of the Karabakh conflict,
he said.

Lennmarker, who is also OSCE PA Acting Rapporteur on the Karabakh
problem, said that the OSCE Minsk Group had done a good job working
towards the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

Lennmarker also said that it would be a mistake to say that the Group
had done nothing in the 14 years of its existence. Its task consists
in creating the required conditions for negotiations, he said.