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    FOREIGN MINISTERS OF OSCE MINSK GROUP'S CO-CHAIR COUNTRIES ADOPTED JOINT STATEMENT ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

    De Facto
    Dec 4, 2008

    YEREVAN, 04.12.08. DE FACTO. On December 4 Foreign Ministers of
    OSCE Minsk group Co-Chair countries adopted a joint statement on
    Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.

    IAA DE FACTO issues the statement's text in extenso: "We, the
    Foreign Ministers and Deputy Minister of the OSCE Minsk Group's
    Co-Chair countries - France, Russia, and the United States - call
    on the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to build on the
    positive momentum established during the meeting of the Presidents
    of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on November 2, 2008. The Moscow
    Declaration signed that same day opened a new and promising phase in
    our shared endeavor to expand peace in the South Caucasus. In that
    declaration, the Presidents reaffirm their commitment to advancing a
    peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the framework
    of the Basic Principles developed by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs in
    collaboration with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis
    of their proposals advanced last year in Madrid.

    We call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to finalize the Basic
    Principles in coming months, and then begin drafting a comprehensive
    peace settlement as outlined by those agreed principles. In keeping
    with the Moscow Declaration, we call on the parties to work with
    the Co-Chairs to=2 0develop confidence-building measures, beginning
    with pulling back snipers from the Line of Contact to save lives of
    innocent civilians and soldiers as our mediators already proposed to
    the sides at the highest level during the last visit mid November. It
    is urgent for the parties to work with each other, the Co-Chairs,
    and the Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office to stabilize
    the ceasefire through this and other measures. We reiterate our firm
    view that there is no military solution to the conflict and call on
    the parties to recommit to a peaceful resolution".
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