PanARMENIAN.Net
OSCE MG FM statement can facilitate Karabakh process
06.12.2008 16:15 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met in
Helsinki with Finnish Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Alexander Stubb to discuss the recent developments in the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement process.
`The statement adopted by Foreign Ministers of the OSCE MG co-chair
states can facilitate the Karabakh process,’ Mr. Nalbandian said.
Ministers Nalbandian and Stubb also exchanged views on development of
the Armenian-Finnish relations.
Foreign Ministers of France, Russia, and the United States – the
co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group – issued a joint
declaration of the on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which says:
`We, the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group’s Co-Chair
countries ` France, Russia, and the United States ` call on the
parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to build on the positive
momentum established during the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia
and Azerbaijan in Moscow on November 2, 2008. The Moscow Declaration
signed that same day opened a new and promising phase in our shared
endeavor to expand peace in the South Caucasus. In that declaration,
the Presidents reaffirm their commitment to advancing a peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the framework of the
Basic Principles developed by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs in
collaboration with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis
of their proposals advanced last year in Madrid.
We call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to finalize the
Basic Principles in coming months, and then begin drafting a
comprehensive peace settlement as outlined by those agreed
principles. In keeping with the Moscow Declaration, we call on the
parties to work with the Co-Chairs to develop confidence-building
measures, beginning with pulling back snipers from the Line of Contact
to save lives of innocent civilians and soldiers as our mediators
already proposed to the sides at the highest level during the last
visit mid November. It is urgent for the parties to work with each
other, the Co-Chairs, and the Personal Representative of the Chairman
in Office to stabilize the ceasefire through this and other
measures. We reiterate our firm view that there is no military
solution to the conflict and call on the parties to recommit to a
peaceful resolution.’