NO LINK BETWEEN CONFLICTS IN KOSOVO, KARABAKH – NATO PA PRESIDENT

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 5, 2008
Russia

The settlement of the Kosovo problem cannot set a precedent for
settling the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Jose Lello, president of the
NATO Parliamentary Assembly, told Azeri parliamentary speaker Agtai
Asadov in Baku on Wednesday.

Kosovo cannot be a precedent for settling the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict and the world community must absolutely accept this, the
Azeri parliament’s press service quoted Lello as saying. There is no
link between the conflicts in Kosovo and Karabakh, he said.

Lello described recent conflict in the disputed region as negative
violations of the ceasefire regime between the Azeri and Karabakh
armies.

Lello told the press that he had not received any official
information on violations of the ceasefire regime and therefore
could not formulate an official position. Nevertheless, he said,
it is a negative situation, which is regretful.

NATO advocates a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
he said. Hopefully, the world community will help create stability
in the region, he added.

Lello arrived in Azerbaijan to attend a Rose-Roth seminar in Baku on
March 6-8.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress