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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY PRESIDENTS ALIYEV, MEDVEDEV AND SARGSYAN - STATEMENT BY THE FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS MINISTRY SPOKESMAN
Embassy of France in Washington
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article1931
Oct 31 2010
France welcomes the adoption, on the initiative of President
Medvedev, of the joint communique issued on 27 October in Astrakhan
by Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev,
whose personal commitment to resolving this conflict we applaud. In
this communique, the parties to the conflict recognize the need for
a peaceful, negotiated settlement and to strengthen the ceasefire
through confidence-building measures. As a first step, the parties
pledge to move forward rapidly with an exchange of prisoners and of
the bodies of those killed. The measures decided by the parties in
Astrakhan may help reduce tension and ceasefire violations, which
have increased in recent months.
This is why France expects them to be implemented without delay. It
is through dialogue and openness that it will be possible to resolve
this conflict to ensure a future of peace, stability and prosperity
for Armenia and Azerbaijan, and for the region as a whole.
Our country, which together with the United States and Russia co-chairs
the OSCE Minsk Group, is sparing no effort to mediate between Armenia
and Azerbaijan and help them achieve a peaceful, fair and lasting
settlement to their conflict over the province of Nagorno-Karabakh.
From: A. Papazian
Embassy of France in Washington
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article1931
Oct 31 2010
France welcomes the adoption, on the initiative of President
Medvedev, of the joint communique issued on 27 October in Astrakhan
by Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev,
whose personal commitment to resolving this conflict we applaud. In
this communique, the parties to the conflict recognize the need for
a peaceful, negotiated settlement and to strengthen the ceasefire
through confidence-building measures. As a first step, the parties
pledge to move forward rapidly with an exchange of prisoners and of
the bodies of those killed. The measures decided by the parties in
Astrakhan may help reduce tension and ceasefire violations, which
have increased in recent months.
This is why France expects them to be implemented without delay. It
is through dialogue and openness that it will be possible to resolve
this conflict to ensure a future of peace, stability and prosperity
for Armenia and Azerbaijan, and for the region as a whole.
Our country, which together with the United States and Russia co-chairs
the OSCE Minsk Group, is sparing no effort to mediate between Armenia
and Azerbaijan and help them achieve a peaceful, fair and lasting
settlement to their conflict over the province of Nagorno-Karabakh.
From: A. Papazian