Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Dec 4 2008

Co-chairs make statement on Nagorno Karabakh conflict

[ 04 Dec 2008 15:40 ]

Helsinki. Tamara Grigorieva`APA. Foreign ministers of OSCE Minsk Group
co-chair countries ` Russia and France Sergei Lavrov and Bernard
Kouchner, as well as US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried made
statement on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, APA correspondent in Helsinki
reports.

The top diplomats called on the sides of Nagorno Karabakh conflict to
use constructive and positive impulse created at the presidents’
meeting in Moscow.

`Moscow Declaration opened a new far reaching phase for peace
achievement in the region. The presidents confirmed their commitment
to the peaceful solution based on the Madrid principles. We call on
the sides to make efforts to complete the work on the basic principles
in the few next months and then to prepare draft peace agreement on
this basis. We call on to carry out measures toward the mutual trust
and to withdraw snipers from the line of contact to save lives of
militaries and civilians. It is necessary that the sides work with
each other and the co-chairs as well. We are stating once more that
there is no military way of solution to the conflict and calling on
the sides to confirm their loyalty to the peaceful solution’.