PanArmenian News
March 18 2005
OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS RECOMMEND EXPEDITING NEGOTIATIONS ON
POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
18.03.2005 04:04
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno
Karabakh conflict recommend expediting the negotiations on the
political settlement of the conflict, the joint statement issued this
Thursday in Vienna and addressed to the OSCE Permanent Council
regarding the outcomes of the fact-finding mission on settling the
territories bordering with Nagorno Karabakh, says, IA Regnum
reported. `The Co-Chairs call not to encourage any settlement of the
seized territories, expedite the negotiations on the political
settlement in order to consider the problem of the migrants and not
to allow changes in the demographic structure of the region’, the
statement runs. `To make the return of the forced migrants possible
the Co-Chairs call the appropriate international organizations to
assess material and financial needs in the region. In order to
preserve cultural heritage in the regions suffered from the conflict
the Co-Chairs earnestly call conflicting parties to work out
practical measures to consolidate trust with the corresponding
communities thus forming a basis for peaceful settlement’, the
mediators note. `Taking into account the consequences of the present
situation for the further settlement of the Karabakh conflict the
Co-Chairs reserve to themselves the possibility of further
examination in favor of the Minsk peaceful process including the
fulfillment of the above-mentioned recommendations’, the statement
says. The Co-Chairs also expressed gratitude to the governments of
Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as the Nagorno Karabakh leadership for
cooperation with the missionaries.