FRANCE CALLS BAKU AND YEREVAN TO REACH AGREEMENT

news.am
Dec 1 2009
Armenia

Presently, there are weighty prerequisites to reach settlement on
Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistrian conflict, said French Foreign
Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking at the OSCE Ministerial Council
conference in Athens.

According to him, owing to OSCE MG as well as Armenian and Azerbaijani
Presidents’ efforts, significant steps are taken towards the conflict
resolution.

"There were six presidential meetings within current year. Hopefully,
same progress will be achieved in Athens either and the conflict
will be resolved shortly. I urge both countries’ foreign ministers
to achieve and process written agreement on the conflict settlement,"
said Kouchner.

"We have to step up our role in settlement of &’frozen conflicts’,
taking into account that OSCE attempts in the course of recent
developments in Georgia failed," underlined FM.

He maintains that France supports Russia’s new initiative on security
in Europe, inter alia stipulating the resolution of regional conflicts,
"Settlement of old conflicts and prevention of new threats is the
core constituents for new security system creation."