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OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS ISSUE STATEMENT
news.am
Sept 6 2010
Armenia
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of
Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United
States, released the following statement today:
"As part of their efforts to facilitate negotiations for the peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the 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 to be particularly active in the months leading
up to the OSCE Summit.
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 Line of Contact, they also strongly condemn any violation
of the cease-fire, in particular incursions across the Line of
Contact, 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
news.am
Sept 6 2010
Armenia
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of
Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United
States, released the following statement today:
"As part of their efforts to facilitate negotiations for the peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the 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 to be particularly active in the months leading
up to the OSCE Summit.
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 Line of Contact, they also strongly condemn any violation
of the cease-fire, in particular incursions across the Line of
Contact, 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