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OFFICIAL STATEMENT: OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS EXPECT ACTIVITY FROM NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SIDES
Today
http://www.today.az/news/politics/73067.html
Sept 6 2010
Azerbaijan
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs - Ambassador Bernard Fassier of France,
Ambassador Robert Bradtke of the United States; Ambassador Igor
Popov of the Russian Federation expect particular activity of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sides in the next few months, OSCE Minsk
Group's official statement says. As part of their efforts to facilitate
negotiations for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs expect to be particularly
active in the months leading up to the OSCE Summit, the statement says.
The statement reads that the Co-Chairs will travel to Baku, Yerevan,
and Nagorno-Karabakh September 6-10 to discuss additional actions
necessary to strengthen the cease-fire, to promote a spirit of
compromise by all parties, and to finalize modalities for further
action. During the third full week of September, the Co-Chairs will
travel to Washington, D.C. and then to New York to work with the
sides on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
Between late September and mid October, the Co-Chairs will return
to the region to conduct the field assessment mission to observe the
humanitarian situation in the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh
that they had discussed previously with the sides in recent months
and the principle of which had already been agreed with the sides
before summer. A team of high-level advisors and experts, including
representatives from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees and others, are expected to accompany the Co-Chairs on
their mission, which will be the first international mission in these
territories since the OSCE fact finding mission in early 2005. Shortly
thereafter, the Co-Chairs will brief the OSCE Minsk Group in Vienna on
their findings. Then the Co-Chairs will present their annual activity
report to the OSCE Permanent Council and actively prepare the OSCE
Summit in Astana with the sides.
During this period of intense activity, the Co-Chairs urge all parties
to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the
ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise
necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public
statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage
in serious dialogue. In response to the most recent incidents along
the contact line, they also strongly condemn any violation of the
cease-fire, in particular incursions across the contact line, deplore
useless loss of life, and recall the statement of their Ministers in
Almaty, that the use of force created the current situation, and its
use again would only lead to suffering, devastation, and a legacy of
conflict and hostility that would last for generations.
From: A. Papazian
Today
http://www.today.az/news/politics/73067.html
Sept 6 2010
Azerbaijan
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs - Ambassador Bernard Fassier of France,
Ambassador Robert Bradtke of the United States; Ambassador Igor
Popov of the Russian Federation expect particular activity of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sides in the next few months, OSCE Minsk
Group's official statement says. As part of their efforts to facilitate
negotiations for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs expect to be particularly
active in the months leading up to the OSCE Summit, the statement says.
The statement reads that the Co-Chairs will travel to Baku, Yerevan,
and Nagorno-Karabakh September 6-10 to discuss additional actions
necessary to strengthen the cease-fire, to promote a spirit of
compromise by all parties, and to finalize modalities for further
action. During the third full week of September, the Co-Chairs will
travel to Washington, D.C. and then to New York to work with the
sides on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
Between late September and mid October, the Co-Chairs will return
to the region to conduct the field assessment mission to observe the
humanitarian situation in the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh
that they had discussed previously with the sides in recent months
and the principle of which had already been agreed with the sides
before summer. A team of high-level advisors and experts, including
representatives from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees and others, are expected to accompany the Co-Chairs on
their mission, which will be the first international mission in these
territories since the OSCE fact finding mission in early 2005. Shortly
thereafter, the Co-Chairs will brief the OSCE Minsk Group in Vienna on
their findings. Then the Co-Chairs will present their annual activity
report to the OSCE Permanent Council and actively prepare the OSCE
Summit in Astana with the sides.
During this period of intense activity, the Co-Chairs urge all parties
to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the
ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise
necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public
statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage
in serious dialogue. In response to the most recent incidents along
the contact line, they also strongly condemn any violation of the
cease-fire, in particular incursions across the contact line, deplore
useless loss of life, and recall the statement of their Ministers in
Almaty, that the use of force created the current situation, and its
use again would only lead to suffering, devastation, and a legacy of
conflict and hostility that would last for generations.
From: A. Papazian