OSCE MG: NAGORNO KARABAKH SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN TALKS
Yerkir.am
May 25, 2007
War is not an option in settling the Karabakh conflict, it is an axiom,
no matter what Azerbaijan says, OSCE Minsk Group French co-chair
Bernard Fassier has told a news conference in Yerevan.
He said that co-chairs’ position has not changed. He said that the
mediators are not magicians, and that the main condition for the
settlement is the presidents’ will.
"We believe that this decision will be fair, balanced and based
on compromise. If Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents’ meeting is
successful in St. Petersburg, the circle of the issues will get
smaller. It is quite possible that a breakthrough happens by the end
of the year.
But if the main principles are not agreed upon, the talks will be
frozen for an unknown period of time. If you remember, they were
suspended in 2004 and were resumed in 2005 only. We should not forger
that presidential elections will be held in both countries in 2008,"
Fassier said.