Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Statement By The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Statement By The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs

    STATEMENT BY THE OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS

    AZG Armenian Daily
    12/05/2009

    Karabakh conflict

    According to the official website of the OSCE Minsk Group, the
    Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Ambassador Yury Merzlyakov of
    Russia, Ambassador Bernard Fassier of France, and Deputy Assistant
    Secretary of State Matthew Bryza of the United States - yesterday
    issued the following statement:

    "Fifteen years ago large-scale hostilities ceased in Nagorno-Karabakh,
    in what had become the most violent conflict on the territory of the
    former Soviet Union. The leaders at the time made a courageous and
    farsighted decision to instruct their military commanders to sign an
    agreement on an immediate ceasefire with no fixed term.

    Unfortunately, this ceasefire has been imperfect and tragically
    every year lives are lost along the front lines. We sincerely hope
    that a peace settlement, towards which the parties are now working,
    will allow new generations to grow up in Armenia, Azerbaijan and
    Nagorno-Karabakh without experiencing the horrors of war.

    Until then, we call on the parties to implement the provisions of
    the ceasefire, the "Proposals on strengthening the ceasefire in the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict" agreed in 1995, as well as the Co-Chairs'
    proposals at the 2008 Helsinki Ministerial Conference to pull back
    snipers from the front lines.

    We express our hope that the present leaders will be able to overcome
    the complex causes and difficult consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict and create an atmosphere of security, trust, cooperation and
    fruitful communication between peoples in the region, allowing them
    to live in peace as good neighbors. We further hope the leaders will
    succeed, in cooperation with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, in finalizing
    their Basic Principles for a peaceful settlement."
Working...
X