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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
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