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    WHAT HAVE WE COMPROMISED?

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    15-07-2005

    "This summer there is more progress than last summer", the OSCE Minsk
    group co-chair Steven Mann evaluated the course of the settlement
    of the Karabakh conflict. And if there is progress, according to the
    Russian co-chair Yuriy Merzlyakov, "it is the result of the compromise
    of the two sides".

    As for what compromise the sides have made, the co-chairs did not
    inform considering it confidential. Neither did they speak about the
    possibility of organizing a referendum in Karabakh, as "There is an
    agreement not to make details public".

    The OSCE Minsk group co-chairs arrived in the press conference
    with a delay of almost an hour. As Yuriy Merzlyakov commented, the
    meeting with the RA President Robert Kocharyan lasted longer than
    anticipated. According to him, the meeting was held in an atmosphere of
    sincerity and was as circumstantial as that with the Azeri President.

    After the May meeting of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents, the
    co-chairs, according to Merzlyakov, tries to formulate the main
    clauses of settling the conflict. Part of them is ready, other still
    need improvement. The main result of this regional meeting, according
    to the co-chairs, is that it has been cleared out that Kocharyan and
    Aliev will meet at the end of August in Kazan during the meeting of
    the CIS countries heads council. And the Foreign Ministers will meet
    on August 23 in Moscow.

    The American co-chair Steven Mann said that there are still unsolved
    issues and disagreements between the two countries, but there are
    also objective conditions which will allow settling the conflict till
    the end of the year. "Although there is a possibility that the issue
    will be settled till the end of the year, there are no guarantees
    for this. Another 100 years may be needed for its solution".

    The co-chairs stressed once more that they are only mediators, and
    even if they prepare a document of agreement, the final decision must
    be made by the Presidents of the two countries.
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