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  • BAKU: Armenian Politician Claims US Mediator's Pro-Azeri Stance

    ARMENIAN POLITICIAN CLAIMS US MEDIATOR'S PRO-AZERI STANCE

    Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
    posted July 5 2006

    Baku, July 4, AssA-Irada
    The latest statements by the US mediator brokering settlement to the
    Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict "openly revealed
    his slant toward Azerbaijan", an Armenian parliament member maintains.

    The US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and the new co-chair of
    the OSCE Minsk Group (MG), Matthew Bryza, has told the press that
    the mediators submitted a framework accord to the conflicting sides
    and outlined its key principles, but added that the latter have yet
    to accept it.

    Armen Ashotian, who represents the Armenian Republican Party, said
    the first part of the statement did not cover determination of the
    Upper Garabagh's status and the issue concerning the Lachin and
    Kalbajar districts.

    "There is a considerable difference between the statements of Bryza
    and those of other MG co-chairs," the MP said.

    He went on to say that the United States binds great hopes with its new
    intermediary. He said international experience in the area of settling
    conflicts over Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South
    Ossetia enables a conclusion that "these hopes are not groundless".

    Commenting on Bryza's position on other issues, Ashotian said the
    American mediator places a particular emphasis on launching dialogue
    between Armenia and Turkey after the Garabagh dispute is settled and
    normalizing relations between the two countries in the future.
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