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    NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA: KOCHARIAN-ALIYEV NEXT MEETING TO PROCEED ACCORDING TO STRICT AMERICAN SCENARIO

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    26.06.2006 12:55 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The new meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
    Presidents Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev on the Nagorno Karabakh
    conflict will most likely proceed according to strict American
    scenario, Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper reports. It says "after the
    recurrent failure of talks at the top level in Bucharest Americans
    decided to take control over the settlement process." The U.S. State
    Department has replaced its Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the
    Karabakh settlement. The post of the OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair
    was assumed by Matthew J. Bryza, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary
    of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.

    Unlike his predecessors and counterpart from Russia and France Mr Bryza
    shows a more open attitude towards journalists. The other day in an
    interview with the RFE/RL the U.S. mediator for the first time slightly
    uncovered the contents and fundamental principles of the conflict
    settlement Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian are supposed to sign. "At
    the moment an organized document is lying on the bargaining table
    but the parties refuse to accept it yet," Matthew Bryza said. In his
    words, the framework agreement provides for the following: withdrawal
    of the Armenian troops from the regions under Armenia's control,
    establishment diplomatic and economic relations between Armenia and
    Azerbaijan, deployment of peacekeeping forces in the conflict zone,
    international economic assistance to Nagorno Karabakh, conduction
    of a referendum on the status of Nagorno Karabakh. Bryza called on
    the Presidents to adopt this framework agreement. At that he said
    "strong political will is essential for it."

    "The new U.S. Co-chair will try to prompt the Presidents during the
    visit to the region to he held in the near future. However, judging
    from the reaction of Baku and Yerevan it won't be easy for Bryza to
    succeed. Last weekend when addressing the graduates of the military
    college after Heydar Aliyev the Azerbaijani President openly said,
    "We will restore our territorial integrity either peacefully or by
    force," Nezavisimaya Gazeta says.
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