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    OSCE MUST PLAY DIRECT ROLE IN SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICTS IN POST-SOVIET SPACE - US

    news.az
    July 29, 2011
    Azerbaijan

    OSCE must continue playing a direct role in the resolution of
    protracted conflicts in Georgia, Moldova and Nagorno Karabakh.

    Barack Obama's administration insists that the Organization for
    Security and Cooperation in Europe play direct role in the resolution
    of 'frozen' conflicts in the post-Soviet space.

    The statement came from US Assistant Secretary of State for European
    and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon. He spoke at the hearings, organized
    by the two-party Commission on Security and cooperation in Europe
    (Helsinki commission) functioning at the US Congress.

    Alongside Gordon, the event on the US policy on OSCE was attended
    by deputy chief of Pentagon on issues of international security
    Alexander Verbshow and US Assistant Secretary of State on Democracy,
    Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner.

    "OSCE must continue playing a direct role in the resolution of
    protracted conflicts in Georgia, Moldova and Nagorno Karabakh", Gordon
    said. He said conflicts have a damaging potential, able to destabilize
    security in the OSCE region'. The task to overcome these conflicts,
    according to the United States, 'must remain top priority for OSCE
    and all its member-states', said official of the US Foreign Ministry.

    In turn, while commenting on negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh,
    Verbshow voiced opinion that a step back occurred in these
    peacekeeping efforts. The attempt to ensure 'a breakthrough' in
    negotiations in Kazan held on 24 June, was not successful, while
    'tensions along the contact line of the parties grow', according to
    the US official. According to his information, Armenia and Azerbaijan
    'are still unable to complete coordination of basic principles of
    settlement of the conflict and we remain in an unconstructive and
    dangerous situation'.

    ITAR TASS

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