Today.Az, Azerbaijan
May 16 2009

I hope that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not
last as long as the conflict in the Middle East: MG French co-chair

16 May 2009 [12:42] – Today.Az

French co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier is
confident that we should not expect the signing of a final documents
from the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan in St. Petersburg.

"The Co-Chairs are active in this direction. The negotiation process
will be very long and will end only when the Presidents agree to sign
a peace treaty ", said the co-chairman in Baku on Saturday, according
to Novosti-Azerbaijan.

According to B. Fassier, "there are some new proposals for discussion
by presidents".

"The time for meeting and the prospects of talks depends on the
presidents. I hope that a solution to this problem will not last as
long as the solution to the conflict in the Middle East" said the
French diplomat.

B. Fassier also added that one should not confuse the normalization of
Armenian-Turkish relations with Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

"This are different, though parallel processes", he resumed.

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