WHAT SHALL HE SAY AFTER MEETING IN BAKU?
By A. Haroutiunian, translated by A.M.
AZG Armenian Daily #203
06/11/2007
Davis Promises to Send Experts to Research Monuments
Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian and Council of Europe
Secretary General Terry Davis before the meeting with reporters,
had discussed issues of bilateral partnership, Karabakh conflict
settlement and problems of preservation of regional culture and
religious monuments
Terry Davis stressed that during the meeting Prime Minister of
Armenia Serge Sarkisian the Armenian side assured him that, unlike
the Azerbaijani side, it is ready to receive the PACE delegation
without ay impediments.
The CE Secretary General also said that there shall be no progress
in case Armenia and Azerbaijan carry on condemning each other, and
added that he would speak about the questions referring to Azerbaijan
in Baku, not in Yerevan. Terry Davis announced that the monitoring
group shall soon arrive in South Caucasus in order to research the
historical, culture and religious monuments.
Referring to the Karabakh issue, Mr. Davis reminded that he has been
the very first CE Rapporteur on Nagorno-Karabakh and is still paying
much attention to the peace process. Davis called the authorities of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic "a regime" and "separatists", and put no
difference between them and the "regimes" of South Osetia, Abkhazia,
Dniester. At the same time CE Secertary General assured that there
is no "separatist regime" in Kosovo.
It is also noteworthy that during his recent visit to Georgia Terry
Davis said that the experience of South Osetia conflict6 settlement
would also be useful for Karabakh. He said that the peace settlement
of the Karabakh conflict is the only affordable.