"ZURICH" INVITATION

Mar ch 30, 2010

We’ll do our best to assist OSCE Minsk Group’s activities towards a
peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict based on Madrid Principles.

We offer the President of Armenia and Azerbaijan to meet in Astana
during the current year. Strengthening co-operation with OSCE
parliamentarians is an important component in tackling regional
challenges such as protracted conflicts and the European arms control
regime," Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakh Foreign Minister, said during the
meeting of CIS Foreign Ministers in Moscow. He mentioned that he had
gotten introduced to the situation in the conflict zone on February
15-17 during his visit to South Caucasus. Let us recall that during
this visit Saudabayev stated that the Kazakh president Nursultan
Nazarbayev had offered Armenia and Azerbaijan his recommendations on
the conflict resolution. Both of the sides have officially confirmed
this. Although the details of Nazarbayev’s recommendations were not
publicized the conversations of the resolution of the NKR in the
framework of Nazarbayev’s recommendations were activated especially
after Saudabayev’s visit to the region. Those were mostly demonstrated
within the frames of Azerbaijan’s optimistic statements and Armenia’s
tolerance. So it is not excluded that the "big document" of the NKR
resolution may be singed in Astana. Only 9 months is left before the
end of 2010.