LENNMARKER AND MORATINOS ENCOURAGE SETTLEMENT IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
ArmInfo
2007-06-07 13:29:00
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
President strongly encouraged Azerbaijan and Armenia to reach an
agreement on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
when they visited the two countries on Monday and Tuesday this week.
"There is now a golden opportunity for an agreement," OSCE
Chairman,Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos,and OSCE PA
President Goran Lennmarker both stated during the visit.
Moratinos,who had asked Lennmarker to join him on the trip because
of his extensive experience in the region,visited Baku on Monday and
Yerevan on Tuesday.The Azeri and Armenian Presidents,Ilham Aliyev
and Robert Kocharyan,will meet in St.Petersburg on Saturday, 9 June,
to discuss the conflict.
An ongoing mediation effort by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, France,
Russia and the U.S., has brought Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a
framework agreement on the basic principles for a peaceful settlement
of the conflict.
Deputy Secretary General Tina Schon accompanied Lennmarker on the
visit.