BAKU: Norway Ready To Facilitate Garabagh Settlement, Its Official S

NORWAY READY TO FACILITATE GARABAGH SETTLEMENT, ITS OFFICIAL SAYS

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
May 10 2006

Baku, May 8, AssA-Irada
Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Kjetil Skogrand has said his country
stands by to facilitate settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh.

“Just like other countries, we believe the talks on the conflict
resolution will be prolific and peace will be restored in the region.

Official Oslo is ready to provide the needed assistance to speed up
the negotiations,” said Skogrand visiting Baku as part of his visit
to the South Caucasus region.

He noted that Norway supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group
mediating the peace process.

Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with the Norwegian
official on Monday. In a news briefing after the meeting, Skogrand
reiterated that his government is ready to do its best to achieve a
solution to the long-standing conflict.

Skogrand is also expected to meet with President Ilham Aliyev and a
number of other officials.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS