OSCE: USE OF FORCE NOT AN OPTION IN SETTLING DISPUTES

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.12.2009 10:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Foreign ministers from the 56 OSCE participating
states charted the way ahead for the OSCE-anchored debate on the
future of European security known as the Corfu Process in a decision
and a Ministerial Declaration adopted today at the Ministerial Council
in Athens.

The ministers said they remained seriously concerned that the
principles of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and subsequent OSCE
commitments are not fully respected and implemented.

"Our highest priority remains to re-establish our trust and confidence,
as well as to recapture the sense of common purpose that brought
together our predecessors in Helsinki almost 35 years ago," the
statement said.

In the declaration, the ministers said they were concerned "that
the use of force has not ceased to be considered as an option in
settling disputes; that the danger of conflicts between states has
not been eliminated, and armed conflicts have occurred even in the
last decades".

They also adopted a statement urging the Minsk Group Co-Chair countries
to sustain the positive dynamic of negotiations of the negotiations
and aiming to finalize the Basic Principles on the peaceful settlement
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

"We are convinced there is today a real opportunity to build a
future of peace, stability and prosperity for the entire region,"
the statement said.