OSCE PA PRESIDENT JOAO SOARES: "SEVERAL STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TOWARDS SOLUTION TO NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT"

APA
March 9 2010
Azerbaijan

Tiflis. Nizami Mammadzadeh-APA. OSCE PA President Joao Soares and OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly’s special representative for Nagorno Karabakh
and Georgia Goran Lennmarker arrived in Tbilisi within the framework
of their visit to South Caucasus.

They met with Georgian Parliament’s Deputy Speaker Gigy Tsereteli,
APA reports. Discussions on Georgia-Russia conflict were held at
the meeting.

The OSCE PA President told APA’s correspondent that the main purpose
of the visit was to hold discussions on conflicts in the region:
"It also concerns Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Special Representative of
the OSCE PA Goran Lennmarker and OSCE PA Deputy Secretary General Tina
Schoen worked hard on Nagorno Karabakh. We will meet with Azerbaijani
and Armenian officials, as well as discuss the ways of solution to
Nagorno Karabakh conflict. I think that several steps have been taken
in this direction. Now both parties need to take some political steps.

Their positions must be discussed in the direction of solution to the
problem. We have met with the presidents and other officials of both
countries and conducted negotiations. Answers of the both sides were
positive in this direction".