GRIGORY KARASIN: "ANY CHANGE OF TALKS’ FORMAT TO INTRODUCE FEELING OF UNCERTAINTY"

DeFacto Agency
March 20 2008
Armenia

YEREVAN, 20.03.08. DE FACTO. Russia counts on maintaining format of
the OSCE Minsk group for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement,
which corresponds to the interests of Armenia, Azerbaijan and the
whole international community, RF deputy FM, State Secretary Grigory
Karasin stated in Yerevan at a briefing.

In his words, the OSCE Minsk group proved its efficiency and there
is no necessity to change it. "What works should work", the deputy
minister noted. "It is important that, unlike other conflicts on
post-Soviet territory, the efforts of Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents yield positive results", G. Karasin noted. "Any change
of format will introduce the feeling of uncertainty. In such a
delicate issue as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement it is
hardly appropriate", he noted.

The OSCE Minsk group for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement
believes sharp attacks on international forums will not yield to
positive results, Grigory Karasin stated answering a question
concerning the position of the OSCE MG co-chair countries on
Azerbaijan’s biased U. N. resolution "On the Position on Azerbaijan’s
Occupied Territories".

According to Karasin, Russia, the U. S. and France voted against
the resolution proposed by Azerbaijan. He expressed hope that in the
near future through the mediation of the OSCE Minsk group Armenian
and Azerbaijani Presidents would hold meetings, which would impart
a new impetus to the settlement process, ArmInfo IA reports.