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OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS ISSUE STATEMENT
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March 17 2011
Armenia
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued a statement on Thursday summing up
their visit to the region. Armenian News-NEWS.am posts the full text.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of
France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the
Russian Federation) traveled to Baku, Yerevan, and Nagorno-Karabakh
March 15-17. In Baku, they met with President Ilham Aliyev and
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, and in Yerevan they met with
President Serge Sargsian and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. In
Nagorno-Karabakh, they held discussions with the de facto authorities.
While in Yerevan, there was also a meeting with the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, the Foreign Minister of Lithuania, Audronius
Azubalis, who is traveling in the region. The Co-Chairs were
accompanied by the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO, Ambassador
Andrzej Kasprzyk.
In their meetings, the Co-Chairs urged the parties to take advantage
of the positive momentum created at the Sochi Summit, hosted on March
5 by President Dmitri Medvedev, and to focus on the priority issues in
order to make progress in reaching an agreement on the Basic Principles
for Resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. They also discussed with
the parties concrete measures to implement the commitment in the joint
statement agreed at Sochi regarding the investigation of violations of
the 1994 ceasefire. They stressed that recent events along the Line of
Contact, before and after the Sochi Summit, had demonstrated the urgent
need for such a mechanism and called upon all the parties to respect
the ceasefire. They referred to their longstanding proposal for the
withdrawal of snipers, regretted that it has not been implemented,
and again urged its adoption, which could save innocent lives.
The Co-Chairs presented their Field Assessment Report to the two
Presidents and the de facto authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh. They
noted that they would be briefing the Minsk Group in Vienna on the
report on March 23 and would have no public comment on it until then.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
March 17 2011
Armenia
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued a statement on Thursday summing up
their visit to the region. Armenian News-NEWS.am posts the full text.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of
France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the
Russian Federation) traveled to Baku, Yerevan, and Nagorno-Karabakh
March 15-17. In Baku, they met with President Ilham Aliyev and
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, and in Yerevan they met with
President Serge Sargsian and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. In
Nagorno-Karabakh, they held discussions with the de facto authorities.
While in Yerevan, there was also a meeting with the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, the Foreign Minister of Lithuania, Audronius
Azubalis, who is traveling in the region. The Co-Chairs were
accompanied by the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO, Ambassador
Andrzej Kasprzyk.
In their meetings, the Co-Chairs urged the parties to take advantage
of the positive momentum created at the Sochi Summit, hosted on March
5 by President Dmitri Medvedev, and to focus on the priority issues in
order to make progress in reaching an agreement on the Basic Principles
for Resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. They also discussed with
the parties concrete measures to implement the commitment in the joint
statement agreed at Sochi regarding the investigation of violations of
the 1994 ceasefire. They stressed that recent events along the Line of
Contact, before and after the Sochi Summit, had demonstrated the urgent
need for such a mechanism and called upon all the parties to respect
the ceasefire. They referred to their longstanding proposal for the
withdrawal of snipers, regretted that it has not been implemented,
and again urged its adoption, which could save innocent lives.
The Co-Chairs presented their Field Assessment Report to the two
Presidents and the de facto authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh. They
noted that they would be briefing the Minsk Group in Vienna on the
report on March 23 and would have no public comment on it until then.
From: A. Papazian