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    Azat Artsakh, NKR
    Sept 15 2006



    FOREIGN MINISTER GEORGY PETROSYAN COMMENTS ON FIRES

    Considering the outcome, namely the intention to send an OSCE mission
    assisted by UN experts to study the short-term and long-term impact
    of fires on the environment, the resolution is acceptable for NKR.
    Moreover, it should be emphasized that this is the logical
    continuation of the initiative of the Nagorno-Karabakh government.

    The NKR government is worried by fires, which inflicted considerable
    damage on the agriculture and threatened to grow into an ecological
    disaster. In this connection, on June 15 the NKR foreign ministry
    addressed a note to the office of the Personal Representative of the
    OSCE CiO calling to conduct a crisis monitoring at the border with
    Azerbaijan. The OSCE mission conducted a series of monitoring two
    weeks late, and the findings underlay the report of the Personal
    Representative of the OSCE CiO, which rebutted the accusations of the
    Azerbaijani side on arson in the settlements of the security area of
    NKR. Hence, the NKR government was the first to invite the OSCE to
    send a monitoring mission to the region, which was ignored in the
    statement of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in the meeting of the
    General Assembly. Generally, if the report of the OSCE senior officer
    needs additional confirmation, we are ready to accept a new OSCE
    mission to dispel the Azerbaijani myths once again. The reporting of
    the question to the UN and the wording in the OSCE resolution is
    unacceptable. The attempts to report the questions that are attended
    to by the OSCE to the UN do not favor progress in the settlement, but
    impede the prospect of settlement of the Karabakh conflict. It should
    be noted that the resolution, namely its content is the result of
    agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which is a rare thing,
    considering the absence of means of confidence between the parties
    over the recent years and is, therefore, commendable. We think that
    similar projects should be discussed by all the three parties of the
    conflict to prevent problems that may occur in applying decisions,
    especially that these decisions basically refer to the territories
    controlled by NKR. The stance of NKR is the same: we are likely to
    continue cooperation with the international organizations and will
    assist the OSCE task force consisting of experts of only neutral
    countries. September 11, 2006, NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    AA.
    15-09-2006
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