THE PRESIDENTS CAN MEET BY THE END OF THE YEAR

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
14 Nov 08
Armenia

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairman Bernard Facieses said it is not excluded
that by the end of the year the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan
will meet again.

The diplomat added that it is up to the two presidents to come to
the decision; as for the mediators they are always ready to organize
the meeting.

Bernard Facieses considered the declaration signed in Moscow on
November 2, an important action towards the settlement of the conflict:
"The document runs that the conflict must be settled in compliance
with the international norms, which means it will be based on Helsinki
final act, which covers the principles of the rights to territorial
integrity and self-determination," the diplomat said and added that
the peaceful settlement of the conflict derives from the interests
of the whole region.

Facieses assessed Turkey’s activeness in the settlement process and
the relations with Armenia, as a "new stage in the life of the region".

Meanwhile he underscored that there is one format in the negotiations
on the settlement of Karabakh conflict, which is OSCE Minsk
Group. "Turkey is Minsk Group member country, and in that framework
they do their best to assist the settlement process. But in our view
there is one format in the negotiation process, as the Presidents
underscored in 0AMoscow, and that format is Minsk Group with the
Co-Chairmen," Bernard Facieses believes.