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    OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS PROPOSE CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES FOR KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

    Interfax
    Oct 26 2011
    Russia

    The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group proposed a number of confidence
    building measures between Azerbaijan and Armenia during their recent
    visit to Baku, Yerevan, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the co-chairs said in
    a statement published on the OSCE website.

    "The Co-Chairs stressed to the sides the need to improve significantly
    the atmosphere of negotiations, increase trust, and strengthen
    implementation of the ceasefire to allow further progress toward
    reaching a peaceful settlement," the statement says.

    "The sides agreed in principle on the draft mechanism to investigate
    incidents along the front lines that the Co-Chairs proposed in April,
    and which Presidents Aliyev, Sargsian, and Medvedev agreed to pursue
    in their March joint statement in Sochi," it says.

    "To discuss the necessity of preparing the populations for a just,
    lasting, and peaceful settlement," the co-chairs also met with the
    two countries' religious leaders.

    "On October 22, the Co-Chairs crossed the Line of Contact by foot for
    the fourth time in the past fourteen months. This crossing highlighted
    again that the Line is not a permanent barrier between neighboring
    peoples, and demonstrated that military coordination is possible when
    all the sides are willing," it says.

    The co-chairs also said they would return to the conflict area in
    late November to continue their efforts "to pave the way for future
    meetings between the sides," it says.




    From: A. Papazian
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