FROZEN CONFLICTS ARE KEY CHALLENGE FOR SOUTH CAUCASIAN COUNTRIES – AZERI FOREIGN MINISTER
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Nov 14 2006
The Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenia
Foreign Minister, Vardan Oskanyan are willing to achieve a progress in
the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during the negotiations
in Brussels, the Foreign Ministers said in the joint press-conference
in Brussels in the evening of November 13, Trend reports quoting
ITAR-TASS.
On November 14, Action Plans within the European Neighborhood Policy
(ENP) will be signed in Brussels between the European Union and three
countries of South Caucasus – Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. After
the signing of the documents, the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign
Ministers will meet for bilateral negotiations. Both Ministers voiced
their confidence that signing the Action Plans will become a good
opportunity for achieving progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov called the frozen
conflicts as "key challenge for the countries of South Caucasus". He
shared optimism of his Armenian colleague, but said that the progress
in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is observed extremely
careful.
The Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said that the Action
Plans will keep the common vision of the situation in the region.
"After their signing, we will go to another room to discuss
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and this will be principally a new stage
of the negotiation process," emphasized, adding that "we do all the
best to achieve a progress and prepare the meeting of our presidents
on this problem".