TRILATERAL MEETING IN SOCHI TO HELP KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.01.2010 11:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador
Sergey Kapinos said Kazakhstan’s chairmanship in the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe can serve as the impetus for
positive change in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process.

"The decision of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to pay a visit to
Transcaucasia testifies Kazakhstan’s interest in resolution of the
conflict," he told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Ambassador Kapinos also noted that the impending meeting between the
Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Sochi can lead to
some progress.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988 as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 to 1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions
of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control
of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks
mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.

With 56 States drawn from Europe, Central Asia and America, the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the
world’s largest regional security organization. It offers a forum for
political negotiations and decision-making in the fields of early
warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict
rehabilitation, and puts the political will of the participating
States into practice through its unique network of field missions.