Astana To Offer Nagorno-Karabakh Mediation Strategy To Baku, Yerevan

ASTANA TO OFFER NAGORNO-KARABAKH MEDIATION STRATEGY TO BAKU, YEREVAN

Interfax
Feb 18 2010
Russia

Astana will offer its proposals on settling the conflict between
Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno- Karabakh, said Kazakh Foreign
Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Kanat Saudabayev.

"Based on the outcomes of Kanat Saudabayev’s visit to Azerbaijan and
Armenia and his negotiations in Baku and Yerevan, Kazakhstan will
work out the further strategy of mediation between the conflicting
parties," Roman Vasilenko, the chairman of the Kazakh Foreign
Ministry’s international information committee, told journalists in
Yerevan in commenting on Saudabayev’s meeting with Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan.

"Mr. Saudabayev said at these meetings that, based on the visits’
outcomes, Kazakhstan would try to develop a formula of its conduct
and proposals in support for the efforts that the parties involved in
the settlement of the conflict have been making for so many years,"
Vasilenko said.

Saudabayev and Sargsyan emphasized a high level of Armenia’s
cooperation with the OSCE institutions and shared confidence that
such cooperation would be stepped up in the future, Vasilenko said.

The Kazakh foreign minister is making a tour of the South Caucasus
countries as the OSCE chairman-in-office with the aim of helping
settle the conflict situations in the region.