Russia & CIS General Newswire
January 18, 2008 Friday 4:57 PM MSK
Intl mediators preparing new version of basic Karabakh conflict
resolution agreement
The co-chairmen of the OSCE (Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group are preparing a new version of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution agreement after another trip to
the conflict region, said Yury Merzlyakov, the Russian co-chairman of
the Minsk Group.
"The goal of our visit was to obtain gauge reaction of the parties to
the Madrid document, which was presented to them late last November.
Such a reaction was evaluated, it was very thorough, and we feel that
the parties have carefully read the document," Merzlyakov said at a
press conference on Friday after the visit to Baku, Yerevan and
Nagorno Karabakh.
"Based on this reaction from the parties, we will prepare another
version of the basic conflict resolution agreement," he said.
"No final agreement has yet been reached, but there is a mutual
understanding between the parties," he said.