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NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO THE KARABAKH CONFLICT: OSCE
12:57, 09 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic
met the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of
the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America,
and Pierre Andrieu of France) today to discuss developments in the
Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto
Zannier and the Personal Representative of the CiO Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk also joined the meeting.
We all agree that the military situation along the Line of Contact and
Armenia-Azerbaijan border is deteriorating, posing a threat to regional
stability and endangering the lives of civilians. The 12 casualties
and 18 wounded cited by Ambassador Kasprzyk's monitoring reports
in January represent the highest confirmed number of victims in the
first month of a year since the 1994 ceasefire agreement. After 2014,
in which approximately 60 people lost their lives, we are alarmed
that this disturbing violent trend has continued.
There is no military solution to the conflict, and the sides must cease
using force. We call on the sides to end incursions, cease targeting
villages and civilians, stop the threat of reprisals and the use of
asymmetric force, and take additional steps to reduce tensions and
strengthen the ceasefire. We find it unacceptable that the security
guarantees are not fully observed during OSCE monitoring exercises.
Additionally, we reaffirm the December 4, 2014 joint statement of the
Heads of Delegation of the Co-Chair countries at the Basel Ministerial
Council, calling on the sides to settle humanitarian issues, including
the return of bodies and prisoners, in the spirit of the Astrakhan
statement of October 2010.
The Minsk Group Co-Chairs, with the full support of the
Chairperson-in-Office, are prepared to host an intensified negotiation
process that can bring to a peaceful end to a conflict that has
scarred the region for too long. We strongly urge the sides to find
the political will to begin this process immediately without excuses.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/02/09/no-military-solution-to-the-karabakh-conflict-osce/
12:57, 09 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic
met the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of
the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America,
and Pierre Andrieu of France) today to discuss developments in the
Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto
Zannier and the Personal Representative of the CiO Ambassador Andrzej
Kasprzyk also joined the meeting.
We all agree that the military situation along the Line of Contact and
Armenia-Azerbaijan border is deteriorating, posing a threat to regional
stability and endangering the lives of civilians. The 12 casualties
and 18 wounded cited by Ambassador Kasprzyk's monitoring reports
in January represent the highest confirmed number of victims in the
first month of a year since the 1994 ceasefire agreement. After 2014,
in which approximately 60 people lost their lives, we are alarmed
that this disturbing violent trend has continued.
There is no military solution to the conflict, and the sides must cease
using force. We call on the sides to end incursions, cease targeting
villages and civilians, stop the threat of reprisals and the use of
asymmetric force, and take additional steps to reduce tensions and
strengthen the ceasefire. We find it unacceptable that the security
guarantees are not fully observed during OSCE monitoring exercises.
Additionally, we reaffirm the December 4, 2014 joint statement of the
Heads of Delegation of the Co-Chair countries at the Basel Ministerial
Council, calling on the sides to settle humanitarian issues, including
the return of bodies and prisoners, in the spirit of the Astrakhan
statement of October 2010.
The Minsk Group Co-Chairs, with the full support of the
Chairperson-in-Office, are prepared to host an intensified negotiation
process that can bring to a peaceful end to a conflict that has
scarred the region for too long. We strongly urge the sides to find
the political will to begin this process immediately without excuses.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/02/09/no-military-solution-to-the-karabakh-conflict-osce/