OSCE URGES AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA TO FULFIL PEACEFUL AGREEMENT WITHOUT DELAY

TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
Nov 30 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. K.Ramazanova / The OSCE Minsk Group
Co-Chairs regulating the Nagorno-Krabakh conflict called on Azerbaijan
and Armenia to fulfil the peace agreement without delay.

It was noted in the joint statement of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs
during the meeting in Madrid with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia
and Azerebaijan.

During the meeting of the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov and the Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, the
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of United
State Matthew Bryza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and
the United States State Secretary Assistant on International Issues
Nicolas Bern submitted the written proposals on the regulation of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to Azerbaijan and Armenia. The document
includes 10 proposals, which have been discussed by both countries
during the last three years.

Both parties were strongly urged to bring to a close the current
stage of negotiations by endorsing the proposed Basic Principles and
to draft, as soon as possible, a comprehensive Peace Agreement."

It was noted that over the last three years of talks that both
countries had significantly narrowed their differences through the
mediation of the Co-Chairs and that only a few discrepancies remained
to be settled. As noted by the representatives of the three Co-Chair
countries, the joint proposal that was passed on to the parties
included fair and constructive solutions to these last remaining
differences.