TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 9 2007

French Ambassador Notes Rejection of Co-Residence possibility in
Azerbaijan and Armenia

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend , corr A.Ismayilova / The French Ambassador
Bernard Fassier, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair, discussed in Yerevan
and Baku the issue of the repatriation of refugees to
Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Ambassador noted that he had witnessed an interest from both
parties in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to continue talks.

Fassier stated to a news conference in Baku that the process will
take a while and some terms should be fulfilled in this respect.
Azerbaijan should organize representations of its administrative
bodies in the Armenian-occupied territory. He also urged for the
presence of peacekeepers in this territory for the security of
refugees.

The co-chair voiced his disappointment regarding the rejection of the
suggestion of co-residence in Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The Ambassador is to return to Yerevan and later to travel to Geneva
to hold meetings with other OSCE Minsk Group chairs on 13 March and
the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Armenia on 14 March.