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    Interfax, Russia
    July 10 2009



    OSCE recognizes decline in fatalities in Karabakh conflict zone

    BAKU July 10


    The number of casualties on the separation line in the Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict zone has declined significantly in recent times,
    personal envoy of the OSCE chairman-in- office Andrzej Kasprzyk said
    at a Thursday briefing in Baku.

    This means that talks are at a stage where no one wants to undermine
    the emerging peace process, he said.

    Meanwhile, Russian cochairman of the OSCE Minsk group Yury Merzlyakov
    spoke of the importance of withdrawing snipers from the separation
    line by both sides of the conflict.

    "The cochairmen are interested in the full observance of the ceasefire
    agreement while the biggest losses today are caused by snipers. We
    believe that their withdrawal would be an important
    confidence-building measure between the sides," he said.

    The ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia was introduced in May
    1994. The OSCE regularly monitors the separation line.

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