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OSCE MILITARY EXPERTS DEVELOP MECHANISMS TO INVESTIGATE INCIDENTS ON THE LINE OF CONTACT IN KARABAKH
/ARKA/
March 5, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, March 5. / ARKA /. The OSCE military experts are engaged in
the development of mechanisms to investigate incidents on the line of
contact between Armenian forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, the
Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov , told reporters
in Stepanakert, after meeting with president of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic Bako Sahakyan .
The meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Robert Bradtke (USA),
Igor Popov (Russia) and Jacques Faure (France) took place on Saturday
in NKR capital Stepanakert.
According to Popov, the mediators presented the details of the latest
talks on the Karabakh conflict held in Russian Sochi involving the
residents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, who among other things,
discussed also creation of mechanisms to investigate incidents on
the contact line.
"We have transferred our ideas and plans to the military experts of
the OSCE and we hope that the initial results of their work will be
ready by the end of this month, Popov said.
'Over the past few years we have been working on the proposed basic
principles for a settlement. The work is slower than we would like it
to be, but nevertheless, progress is evident, as was stated in Sochi,"
Popov said.
The American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, Robert Bradtke, described
the meeting with president Sahakyan useful.
"The meeting was useful. We discussed the situation on the contact
line, as well as recent developments around the resolution of conflict,
" Bradtke told reporters after talks with Sahakyan.
He said they would return to Yerevan on Sunday and then head for Baku
on Monday to meet with Azerbaijani president Ilham Alive and foreign
minister Elmar Mammadyarov. Bradtke expressed confidence that the new
French mediator Jacques Faure will make a great and useful contribution
to the mediation efforts.
Nagorno-Karabakh, populated overwhelmingly by ethnic Armenians,
broke away from Azerbaijan following a three-year war that left some
30,000 dead. A Russia-brokered ceasefire ended the hostilities in
1994, but peace has remained fragile since then. The current Minsk
Group-mediated negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have not
brought a peace agreement yet.
The latest peace plan of the international mediators calls for the
Armenian withdrawal from some of the territories held by the Karabakh
military, the return of displaced people, security guarantees for
Karabakh and its Armenian population and the possibility of a future
referendum to decide the area's final legal status.
From: A. Papazian
/ARKA/
March 5, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, March 5. / ARKA /. The OSCE military experts are engaged in
the development of mechanisms to investigate incidents on the line of
contact between Armenian forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, the
Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov , told reporters
in Stepanakert, after meeting with president of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic Bako Sahakyan .
The meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Robert Bradtke (USA),
Igor Popov (Russia) and Jacques Faure (France) took place on Saturday
in NKR capital Stepanakert.
According to Popov, the mediators presented the details of the latest
talks on the Karabakh conflict held in Russian Sochi involving the
residents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, who among other things,
discussed also creation of mechanisms to investigate incidents on
the contact line.
"We have transferred our ideas and plans to the military experts of
the OSCE and we hope that the initial results of their work will be
ready by the end of this month, Popov said.
'Over the past few years we have been working on the proposed basic
principles for a settlement. The work is slower than we would like it
to be, but nevertheless, progress is evident, as was stated in Sochi,"
Popov said.
The American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, Robert Bradtke, described
the meeting with president Sahakyan useful.
"The meeting was useful. We discussed the situation on the contact
line, as well as recent developments around the resolution of conflict,
" Bradtke told reporters after talks with Sahakyan.
He said they would return to Yerevan on Sunday and then head for Baku
on Monday to meet with Azerbaijani president Ilham Alive and foreign
minister Elmar Mammadyarov. Bradtke expressed confidence that the new
French mediator Jacques Faure will make a great and useful contribution
to the mediation efforts.
Nagorno-Karabakh, populated overwhelmingly by ethnic Armenians,
broke away from Azerbaijan following a three-year war that left some
30,000 dead. A Russia-brokered ceasefire ended the hostilities in
1994, but peace has remained fragile since then. The current Minsk
Group-mediated negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have not
brought a peace agreement yet.
The latest peace plan of the international mediators calls for the
Armenian withdrawal from some of the territories held by the Karabakh
military, the return of displaced people, security guarantees for
Karabakh and its Armenian population and the possibility of a future
referendum to decide the area's final legal status.
From: A. Papazian