YURI MERZLYAKOV: "OBJECTIVE CONDITIONS FOR RESOLUTION OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT ARE CREATED WHILE SUBJECTIVE CONDITIONS ARE NOT QUITE AVAILABLE"
Today.Az
Marc h 2 2009
Azerbaijan
OSCE MG co-chairs met Saturday evening with head of the Karabakh
separatists Bako Saakyan.
After the meeting Russian co-chair of the Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov
considers that there have been created objective conditions for the
resolution of the Karabakh conflict.
Answering the question about possible achievements in the resolution
process in 2009 the Russian co-chair said it is always difficult to
give time forecasts and he cannot say what will happen in 2009.
"Objective conditions for the resolution of the Karabakh conflict
are created while subjective conditions are not quite available",
said Merzlyajkov explaining that the subjective conditions imply the
political will of the parties on adoption of decisions, which are
sometimes difficult but still important.
Merzlyakov assessed the meeting with Saakyan as constructive. He
said during the meeting the co-chair tried to inform the Karabakh
president about the recent meeting with presidents of Armenia and
Azerbaijan in Zurich and the new opportunities they saw by results
of this meeting and also shared their impressions and ideas.
The Russian co-chair also announced that "President" of "Nagorno
Karabakh" "provided wide useful information and there were definite
issues on definite projects and the conversation was not in vain".
The Russian diplomat did not specify the details of the meeting with
head of the Karabakh separatist regime noting that "we never speak
about this".
The Russian co-chair also condemned the recent incident during the next
OSCE monitoring on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
forces, saying "it shouldn’t have happened.