OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS REPLACEMENT NOT TO JUSTIFY ITSELF

PanARMENIAN.Net
29.03.2008 13:23 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Replacement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs
dealing with settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by other
intermediaries will not justify itself, said MP Mubariz Gurbanli,
deputy executive secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP).

"Three countries – France, Russia and the United States – are
represented in the OSCE Minsk Group and they are the permanent members
of the UN Security Council and of the G8. These three countries
have great authority in the world. Which other countries can replace
them? Intermediary should be strong. If strong intermediaries fail to
settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, so how will weak intermediaries
do that? Through strong countries we have more chances to achieve
the goal. Formal participation of weak countries will produce no
effect. The problem can be solved in the framework of the OSCE Minks
Group through sticking to the principle ‘the strong one is the right
one’," Gurbanli said, Trend Azeri news agency reports.

Several days ago Azerbaijan sent a letter to the OSCE Secretariat
urging to recall or replace the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.