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    Armenian minister rules out second OSCE monitoring in Karabakh

    Arminfo, Yerevan
    9 Feb 05

    Yerevan, 9 February: In response to Azerbaijan's initiative to carry
    out monitoring by an OSCE expert group on the territories controlled
    by the Armenian side, Nagornyy Karabakh should initiate international
    monitoring in the Armenian villages of Artsvashen [Baskand in Gadabay
    District], Shaumyan [Gulustan in Goranboy District] and Getashen
    [Caykand in Xanlar District] controlled by Azerbaijan, Armenian
    Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan told journalists today.

    Commenting on the Azerbaijani deputy foreign minister's statement
    that Baku will make efforts to arrange a second monitoring on the
    territories controlled by the Armenian side if the expert group's
    conclusion is "pro-Armenian", Oskanyan said: "Baku's statements of
    this kind testify to the fact that Azerbaijan realized from the outset
    that accusations against the Armenian side were wide of the mark,
    and this will be registered in the expert group's conclusion."

    If Baku tries to doubt the OSCE expert group's conclusion, this
    will undermine the international image of this country, and the
    international community will not take Azerbaijan's statements seriously
    in the future, Oskanyan added.

    "Azerbaijan has always believed that all international documents,
    conclusions and proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group should reflect
    its interests. However, today facts and reality do not meet the
    interests of Azerbaijan," Oskanyan said. He said that monitoring on the
    territories under [Armenian] control will not be held for the second
    time. At the same time, he hoped that in their conclusion the experts
    would register what they had seen on the aforesaid territories. The
    Armenian side is ready to accept the conclusion by the OSCE expert
    group, Oskanyan emphasized. One can speak about an impact of the
    monitoring on the territories controlled by the Armenian side on the
    talks for the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict only after
    the experts' conclusion is made public, he added.
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