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    ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S WORKING VISIT TO HELSINKI STARTS

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am?shownews=1010227
    Dec 4, 2008

    HELSINKI, DECEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Foreign Minister Edward
    Nalbandian, who is in Helsinki on a working visit, on December 3 met
    with OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. The latter
    informed him about his intention to visit Armenia soon.

    E. Nalbandian said that Armenia attaches importance to OSCE's role
    in providing security and cooperation in Europe and considers that
    the organization needs reformation to more efficiently respond to
    the current problems.

    The current security system in Europe was touched upon at the
    meeting. The RA Foreign Minister emphasized that the European security
    system needs perfection, and the organization member countries should
    exert joint efforts to make it more active and effective.

    Issues connected with OSCE Yerevan Office's activity and raising its
    efficiency were also discussed at the meeting.

    The same day E. Nalbandian met with Goran Lenmarker, OSCE PA Rapporteur
    on Nagorno Karabakh issue. The latest developments in the negotiations
    on Artsakh problem settlement were discussed at the meeting. Attaching
    importance to the declaration signed by the Presidents of Armenia,
    Azerbaijan, and Russia on November 2 in Moscow, E. Nalbandian said
    that the misrepresented commentaries upon the declaration voiced by
    Azerbaijan and its attempts to disregard the provisions stipulated
    by the document undermine the efficiency of the process and recording
    of progress.

    G. Lenmarker, in his turn, reaffirmed that OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
    has always supported Nagorno Karabakh settlement only through peaceful
    negotiations.

    According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA Foreign
    Ministry Press and Information Department, the same day E. Nalbandian
    and Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadiarov met with OSCE Minsk Group
    Co-chairs Yuri Merzliakov, Bernard Fassier, Matthew Bryza, and Personal
    Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Casprzyk. Issues
    related to Nagorno Karabakh settlement were discussed during the
    meeting. They attached importance to the preservation of the positive
    spirit formed as a result of Armenian and Azeri Presidents' meeting
    held on June 6, 2008 in Saint Petersburg and on November 2 in Moscow,
    continuation of the negotiations on the basis of Madrid principles,
    with the assistance of MG Co-chairs for the purpose of bringing close
    the approaches of the sides, settling the problem peacefully.
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