UNITED STATES CHEERED UP ALONG WITH MINSK GROUP
Lragir.am
24 March 06
Member of Parliament Victor Dallakyan, who had participated in the
meeting of Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, and Stephen
Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group American co-chair, revealed details and
nuances of the meeting that took place behind closed doors.
`The impression is that Daniel Fried had intended to discuss three
problems in the three South Caucasian countries: the problems of
regional partnership, energy security and democratization. In fact,
the message of the meeting was that all the problems can be settled
through regional cooperation and security. During the meeting the
possibility of igniting wars was openly denied, and they said that
they would make every possible effort, especially in reference to
Azerbaijan, not to allow this to happen. In other words, it was stated
clearly that the Karabakh issue cannot be resolved in a military
way. In fact, the United States is fulfilling a separate mission for
the problem of Nagorno Karabakh. Although we were told that France and
Russia would be informed about other meetings that will follow, I
would like to state that along with the OSCE Minsk Group the United
States has become more active with regard to the problem of Nagorno
Karabakh. The United States takes more interests and initiative.’