OSCE CALLS ON YEREVAN AND BAKU TO MAKE FULL USE OF MG PROPOSALS

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.06.2008 13:27 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb
met the three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in Helsinki on Monday
to discuss developments related to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov of the Russian Federation, Ambassador
Bernard Fassier of France and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Matthew Bryza of the United States, along with Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office
on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, briefed Minister Stubb on recent
developments, in particular on the meeting between the Presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan on 7 June in St. Petersburg.

Minister Stubb expressed his full support for the work of the
Minsk Group Co-Chairs. "Conflict resolution in the OSCE area is a
key priority of the Finnish Chairmanship. I encourage Armenia and
Azerbaijan to make full use of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ facilitation
and to consider seriously the proposal for the basic principles for
resolving the conflict.

There is no alternative to a peaceful resolution of the conflict,"
he said, the OSCE communication unit reports.