ICG’S KARABAKH REPORT TO ANALYZE OSCE MINSK GROUP’S ACTIVITY

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
March 29 2007

The International Crisis Group is drawing up the third report on the
Nagorno- Karabakh conflict, ICG representative in Azerbaijan Vugar
Gojayev told the APA.

He said the report will analyze the mediating activity of the OSCE
Minsk Group and the Prague process, which started in 2004.

Gojayev said that meetings were held with government representatives
and experts and reported that Magdalena Fricheva, new director of
ICG’s South Caucasus project will arrive in Baku in late April to
conduct interviews.

The report will also analyze the influence of Azerbaijan’s economic
growth and oil revenues on the solution of the conflict. An expert
from ICG Office in Brussels will visit Azerbaijan in April to deal
with this issue. The expert will have meetings at the State Oil Company
international transnational companies and with economic experts.

Gojayev said the IGC is also having meetings in Armenia concerning
the report. The report is expected to be presented to the parties
in summer.

The IGC drew up two reports on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between
Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2005.