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AZERI-ARMENIAN MEETING MUST MARK STARTING POINT IN NEW PHASE OF KARABAKH TALKS - OSCE
Interfax, Russia
June 3 2014
Necessity has arisen to hold one more meeting between the presidents
of Azerbaijan and Armenia within the framework of the talks on the
peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Organization
for Security and Cooperatiion in Europe's Chairman-in-Office, Swiss
President Didier Burkhalter said.
Burkhalter said, while making a joint statement with Azeri President
Ilham Aliyev following bilateral talks on Monday, that the goal of
his arrival in Baku was to hear different views and, possibly, to
find ways of ensuring progress in the negotiating process.
He also said that his attitude to the settlement of the Armenian-Azeri
conflict as the OSCE's chairman-in-office, is obvious.
Consistent steps should be made towards peace, he said. This means,
he continued, that two main things should be done. First, dialogue
should be intensified, he said. Dialogue was underway already, but
necessity has arisen to hold a new meeting between the Azeri and
Armenian presidents, Burkhalter said.
A proposal is on the agenda to organize such a meeting in Paris,
he said.
The OSCE supports this idea and wants the meeting to be held in the
near future, Burkhalter said, adding that the meeting must become
the starting point for a new phase in the talks.
On the other hand, it could be a structured negotiating process
leading to a peace agreement, he said.
This negotiating process must proceed on the basis of the model
principles, Burkhalter said.
The second thing to be done is to strengthen the ceasefire regime,
he said. The mechanism of investigating incidents, approved by all
the parties in the past, but never implemented, remains the most
important issue, he said.
Burkhalter said that Switzerland is ready to assist the peaceful
negotiating process for the sake of settling the Armenian-Azeri
conflict.
Interfax, Russia
June 3 2014
Necessity has arisen to hold one more meeting between the presidents
of Azerbaijan and Armenia within the framework of the talks on the
peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Organization
for Security and Cooperatiion in Europe's Chairman-in-Office, Swiss
President Didier Burkhalter said.
Burkhalter said, while making a joint statement with Azeri President
Ilham Aliyev following bilateral talks on Monday, that the goal of
his arrival in Baku was to hear different views and, possibly, to
find ways of ensuring progress in the negotiating process.
He also said that his attitude to the settlement of the Armenian-Azeri
conflict as the OSCE's chairman-in-office, is obvious.
Consistent steps should be made towards peace, he said. This means,
he continued, that two main things should be done. First, dialogue
should be intensified, he said. Dialogue was underway already, but
necessity has arisen to hold a new meeting between the Azeri and
Armenian presidents, Burkhalter said.
A proposal is on the agenda to organize such a meeting in Paris,
he said.
The OSCE supports this idea and wants the meeting to be held in the
near future, Burkhalter said, adding that the meeting must become
the starting point for a new phase in the talks.
On the other hand, it could be a structured negotiating process
leading to a peace agreement, he said.
This negotiating process must proceed on the basis of the model
principles, Burkhalter said.
The second thing to be done is to strengthen the ceasefire regime,
he said. The mechanism of investigating incidents, approved by all
the parties in the past, but never implemented, remains the most
important issue, he said.
Burkhalter said that Switzerland is ready to assist the peaceful
negotiating process for the sake of settling the Armenian-Azeri
conflict.