LENMARKER TO MEET THE PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA
armradio.am
10.02.2009 11:04
President Serzh Sargsyan will receive the delegation headed by OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly President’s Special Representative for Nagorno
Karabakh Goran Lenmarker.
Lenmarker will leave Armenia for Georgia. He said in an interview
with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly website that he hopes to learn
more about how the Georgians view the pressing issues on refugees
and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and about their perspective
on finding a dialogue with Russia. He said it is important that the
OSCE continue to play a role in South Ossetia because there is a
great need for impartial mediators and observers such as from the OSCE.
"In South Ossetia, there is now a situation where you have had de facto
ethnic cleansing," Mr. Lennmarker said in the interview. "Refugees
and IDPs, who live outside of South Ossetia, have their homes there
and wish to go back. If they are to go back to a situation where
their houses have been burned down, they need impartial observers —
people they feel can protect them, so they don’t go back to the same
situation they just fled from."