MINSK GROUP IS AGAIN IN YEREVAN AND WILL BE AGAIN IN BAKU
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
26/10/2007
Frequent visits to region remain without result
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzliakov (Russia), Bernard Fussier
(France) and Matthew Bryza (USA) are again in the region. Naturally,
the Co-Chairs in Armenia, also on October 26 in Baku will discuss
issues that are not agreed yet.
On October 24, RA President Robert Kocharian and Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian met with the Co-Chairs.
It’s worth to mention that on October 17, V. Oskanian met with French
Co-Chairman Bernard Fussier and Russian Co-Chairman Yuri Merzliakov
to discuss issues of the visit of the Co-Chairs to region on October
24-27.
The main issues are on the provisions that are not agreed yet, the
number of which is always changeable like the number of the pages of
the documents.
Anyway, according to "Azatutyun" website, on October 9 Armenian
Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, in his speech in EU Foreign Relations
Committee meeting announced that the negotiations discovered serious
perspectives in the framework of OSCE.
He also mentioned that in the three-page document of the main
principles of the conflict settlement only four issues remained
disagreed.
Underlining that the leaders of the two countries hadn’t yet reached
a compromise in those four issues, the Minister hoped that they could
overcome the disagreements before the Armenian presidential elections
in February 2008.
The Co-Chairs last time were in Yerevan on September 17, when the
Co-Chairman Yuri Merzliakov in the Embassy of France mentioned,
"We got positive impression of those meetings and at least we guess
that the leaving for Baku got additional spur after those meetings. We
hope that the meeting in Baku will also be efficient".
Similar announcements prove that only in the most desperate situation
we should expect something from these visits.
And the possibility of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents’
meeting is a manifestation of concentrating the attention to the
process and not presenting the reality.