BAKO SAHAKYAN: "IF KOSOVO’S INDEPENDENCE CONTRIBUTES TO KARABAKH’S INDEPENDENCE, WE WILL ONLY BE HAPPY"

Panorama.am
20:46 26/02/2008

Today President of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met with
OSCE Acting Chairman in Office, Foreign Minister of Finland Ilka
Kanerva. In the president’s words, the meeting was introductory in
its nature but the parties tried to discuss several practical issues
as well.

"We talked about the negotiation process, on monitoring of OSCE
standing representation at the contact line. We also came up with
several proposals," Bako Sahakyan told reporters in a briefing. In
his words, the meeting was successful.

In the words of OSCE acting chairman, it is very important
to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan and to talk about Karabakh
with the representatives of the countries and by doing so to
find some a solution to Karabakh conflict. "Today I met with
the Armenian president, foreign minister and other top level
government officials. Nagorno Karabakh is the main topic of our
discussions. Besides, OSCE is interested not only in Karabakh
conflict settlement but also establishment of democracy across the
South Caucasus," Kanerva mentioned.