COUNCIL OF EUROPE PROPOSES KARABAKH COMMISSION

news.az
March 18 2010
Azerbaijan

Council of Europe The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
plans to discuss the commission idea with the Armenian and Azerbaijani
delegations in April.

PACE chairman and Turkish MP, Movlud Cavusoglu, said in Kazakhstan
that the Council of Europe would like to set up a temporary commission
to support the negotiating process on Karabakh.

‘Ankara, which is a member of the OSCE Minsk Group and the initiator
of the South Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform, has
intensified efforts to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh. The Council of Europe has proposed creating
a temporary commission to support the process’, Cavusoglu said.

He said that the issue would be discussed at the meetings with the
Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations in April.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is the main
international mediator on the Karabakh conflict through its Minsk
Group. The three co-chairs of the Minsk Group, who are diplomats
from France, Russia and the USA, lead mediation efforts. Kazakhstan
is chairman-in-office of the OSCE.