FRENCH CO-CHAIR OF OSCE MINSK GROUP: ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS ARE GIVEN FULL LIST OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF SETTLEMENT
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2007-11-29 17:53:00
ArmInfo. During the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign
Ministers Vartan Oskanian and Elmar Mammadyarov in Madrid, the
ministers received no new proposals but they were given the full list
of fundamental principles of settlement, which may become a start for
drawing up the document on settlement, French Co-chairman of the OSCE
Minsk Group Bernard Fassier said. As ArmInfo correspondent in Madrid
reports, the OSCE MG co-chairs, Russian and French foreign ministers,
US assistant secretary of State, and the personal representative of
the OSCE chairman-in-office were present at the meeting.
B.Fassier said that the co-chairs continue their meditation in
the peaceful talks, frequently visit the capitals of Armenia and
Azerbaijan, meet the countries’ presidents and foreign ministers and
try to narrow the circle of unsettled issues. "Today we formulated all
these issues, presenting in a certain manner how a single initiative of
the co-chairs may be", said B.Fassier. He added that the parties also
take into account the fact that presidential elections will shortly be
held in both countries. To note, within the next few weeks the OSCE MG
co-chairs will visit the region, meet the presidents of Armenia and
Azerbaijan, and at the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008 again visit
the region to see the presidents’ reaction to the question what is
unacceptable this time and what ideas have arisen.
Afterwards the two presidents will approve these principles, and
then it will be possible to start the work over the main document
with experts, B.Fassier noted. According to him, the mediators’
participation in the talks can’t fail to succeed. "I have 4 sons, a
daughter and ten grandchildren and I dream of seeing no more Armenian
and Azeri children killed", he said.