ARMENIA HOPES FOR SWIFT RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
Russia & CIS General Newswire
November 8, 2007 Thursday 5:15 PM MSK
Armenia expects the co-chairmen of the OSCE (Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group to take new steps
toward resolving the Karabakh conflict, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian has said.
"I think after another stage of talks Karabakh mediators will come up
with new ideas and find new approaches," Oskanian said at a meeting
with his Lithuanian counterpart Pjatras Vajtekunas on Thursday.
Vajtekunas said that Vilnius is only looking for a peaceful resolution
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and for non-interference in other
countries’ internal affairs, as well as for cooperation between the
Baltic States and South Caucasus countries in the three-plus-three
format.
Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno Karabakh region in the 1990s
during a bloody conflict with Armenia and is now trying to regain its
lost control. To help resolve the Karabakh conflict, the OSCE formed
a Minsk Group co-chaired by representatives from the United States,
Russia and France.