GARABAGH MEDIATORS NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND MOSCOW TALKS

AssA-Irada
November 3, 2008 Monday
Azerbaijan

The OSCE mediators brokering a settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan
Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict were not allowed to attend the
trilateral meeting of the Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian presidents
held in Moscow on Sunday, US co-chair Matthew Bryza has said. Bryza
said the mediators had been initially invited to the Russian capital
to take part in the talks but then their participation in the meeting
was denied. He noted that this was not in compliance with the OSCE
Minsk Groups work methods. It turns out as if France and the United
States had not contributed to the process of drafting the declaration
[the document passed in conclusion of the meeting], therefore, it
has no particular importance, Bryza said.