Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
January 29, 2007 Monday 4:22 PM MSK
Minsk Group calls on Baku, Yerevan to search for trust building
measures
The co-chairmen of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group have called on the leaders of Azerbaijan
and Armenia to search for measures which will build trust between the
two countries and help preserve the current ceasefire.
"Responsibility for searching for a sustainable and peaceful
resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict lies with the Armenian
and Azeri presidents. The Minsk Group will assist them in this
cause," a statement by the co-chairmen distributed by the U.S.
Embassy in Baku on Monday says.
"The presidents may actively defend their national interests, but
only in a way that allows the peace process to continue," it says.
The co-chairmen call on the parties to the conflict, "to preserve the
results thus far achieved in the negotiations, while at the same time
preparing for compromise," it says.
Russia, France and the United States co-chair the Minsk Group.