SOUTH CAUCASUS NEEDS PEACE AND STABILITY: GEORGE PAPANDREOU
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Oct 29 2009
Armenia
OSCE is encouraged by "positive momentum that the recent frequent
meetings of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have created,"
stated the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Greek Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister George Papandreou, speaking at the OSCE Permanent Council
Session in Vienna on October 29.
"I would like to pay tribute to their tireless efforts to find
a mutually acceptable solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue,"
Papandreou said.
He also paid tribute to the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and his personal
representative Andrzej Kasprzyk.
According to him, the conflicts prevent from the regions’ development
and there are "potential sources of discord and we cannot afford
to leave them on the back burner. The war in Georgia has proven
this point."
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office underlined that "for the populations
affected, irrespective of their national origin, the concept of
cooperative and indivisible security has no practical value. They
all need peace and stability, not a fragile status quo."