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    French mediator upbeat about chances for resolving Armenian-Azeri conflict

    Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
    25 May 05

    [Presenter] The French co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard
    Fassier, believes that there are favourable conditions for the signing
    of a peace accord [to resolve the Karabakh conflict].

    Fassier said that at the Warsaw meeting between the [Armenian and
    Azerbaijani] presidents [on 15 May], the mediating countries occupied
    a clear-cut position, i.e. a military option is unacceptable. There
    are good opportunities to speed up the resolution of the Karabakh
    problem after the Warsaw meeting of the presidents and consequently,
    to hammer out a peace agreement, Bernard Fassier said.

    The French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, believes that the
    activities of the co-chairmen and the [Azerbaijani and Armenian]
    foreign ministers has considerably increased. Assessing this
    positively, the co-chairman thinks that there is no way that the peace
    talks can be abandoned at this stage.

    [Fassier, speaking in Russian with Azeri voice-over] A peaceful
    resolution to the conflict is the best option. It is important to
    speed up the process for resolving the conflict. There is some
    fundamental progress though it is insufficient. We hope to succeed in
    signing an agreement between the sides to the conflict in the end.

    [Correspondent] While giving a high assessment of the presidents'
    Warsaw meeting, the diplomat said that the French and Russian foreign
    ministers in the talks had not submitted a peace plan to the
    presidents. Fassier said that they had only provided them with their
    recommendations for a peace initiative. However, the ministers also
    highlighted that it was Armenia and Azerbaijan which shoulder primary
    responsibility.

    [Passage omitted: the sides involved in the conflict rather than
    mediators should make more of an effort to seek a solution; tension on
    the border has eased recently]
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