NATO PA Secretary General says conflicting sides must continue peace talks
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Nov 26 2004
The Upper Garabagh conflict can be solved only through agreement to be
reached between the conflicting sides, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
(PA) Secretary General Simon Lunn told journalists on Thursday.
Lunn said that security issues must be solved first in order to settle
the conflict. It is necessary that the conflicting sides continue
peace talks, he underlined.
“The settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper Garabagh
is a very long process and other states may assist the conflicting
sides to resolve the conflict,” the NATO PA Secretary General said.
Asked why NATO does not take similar decisive steps concerning the
settlement of conflicts in South Caucasus as it had done in Iraq,
Afghanistan and other countries, Lunn said that all situations differ
from one another.*