Interfax, Russia
Feb 18 2010
Kazakhstan to work out road map for Karabakh resolution
VIENNA Feb 18
As the chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Kazakhstan is going to devise a road map
for the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
Saudabayev ended his four-day working visit to the South Caucasus
countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
"Now, based on the visit results and the positives achieved by all the
parties involved in this process, we are going to work out the
chairmanship’s road map to support and step up the parties’ efforts to
further advance the peaceful conflict resolution. In this context, we
must consider and support any possible steps to reduce tensions and to
build confidence in the conflict zone," he said at a joint session of
the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s three General Committees in Vienna
on Thursday.
The Azeri and Armenian Presidents, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan,
respectively, had a "substantial and frank exchange of views" in Baku
and Yerevan, he said.
"The past meetings with parliamentarians, representatives from
parties, socio-political movements, direct victims of the conflict,
gave us an invaluable insight into and understanding of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Saudabayev said.