EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE: AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA SHOULD INTENSIFY CO-OPERATION WITH PUBLIC

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 19 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr A. Ismaylova / Peter Semneby, the EU
Special Representative in the South Caucasus, urged that Azerbaijan
and Armenia should intensify their co-operation with the public in
order to sign a peace agreement.

Semneby believes both Azerbaijan and Armenia could exert more effort.

The issue has not been given enough attention to date.

Semneby expressed his hope that the peace agreement will be signed
as soon as possible. He was commenting on the statement of Goran
Lenmarker, the President of the UN Parliamentary Assembly, on the
possibility of the peace agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
being settled after the presidential elections in Armenia.

"Some two decades have past since the conflict and it is high time
for the parties to sign the peace agreement. We hope that on the basis
of the last meeting of the presidents of the two countries in Minsk,
the settlement can be achieved," he noted.