OSCE MINSK GROUP URGES BAKU, YEREVAN TO COORDINATE SETTLEMENT BASICS

Interfax
Dec 4 2008
Russia

The foreign ministers of Russia, France and the United States –
countries represented by the cochairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group –
have urged parties to the Karabakh conflict to build up confidence
and to draft a peace agreement, the Armenian Foreign Ministry told
Interfax on Thursday.

The foreign ministers called for "using the constructive and positive
impulse given by the Moscow meeting of the Azerbaijani, Armenian and
Russian presidents on November 2, 2008," the ministry said.

They also suggested that parties to the conflict should pool efforts
with the Minsk Group cochairmen "in order to complete the coordination
of settlement fundamentals within the next few months and to begin
the drafting of a peace agreement on that basis," the ministry said.

"We reaffirm our opinion that the Karabakh conflict cannot have a
military solution and urge the sides to confirm their adherence to
the peace settlement," the ministers said in a joint statement.