FASSIER DOES NOT EXCLUDE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGES IN KARABAKH ISSUE TILL JULY

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.04.2007 17:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ OSCE Minsk Group French Co-Chair Bernard Fassier
stated on Thursday that till July some changes are possible in
the negotiation process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. He made
this statement responding to a request to comment on legitimacy
of presidential election in Nagorno Karabakh scheduled for July
19. Fassier said it is early to comment the elections, explaining that
a meeting will be held between FMs of Armenia and Azerbaijan till
July. He thinks still there is some time till July and obstacles
that exists in the settlement process of the conflict may be
removed. Fassier did not specify the place of meeting, already 3rd
this year, between ministers Elmar Mamedyarov and Vartan Oskanian. He
said several variants are under discussion. OSCE MG Russian Co-Chair
Yuri Merzlyakov too did not comment on elections and noted that more
important question must be solved till elections. He also did not
specify details of meeting between FMs, "Trend" reports.