OSCE MG Co-chairs urge Baku, Yerevan to work harder for NK settlemen

Interfax, Russia
July 30 2010

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs urge Baku, Yerevan to work harder for
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement

BAKU July 29

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will pay a visit to the enclave
of Nagorno-Karabakh in early September, it was announced after a
meeting in Vienna.

“The co-chairs stressed that the efforts made so far by the sides of
the conflict have not been sufficient to overcome their differences,
and that additional actions are needed to reinforce the ceasefire and
demonstrate a spirit of compromise,” it said in a statement.

“To assist the parties in their efforts, the co-chairs plan to visit
the region in early September,” it says.

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs ambassador Igor Popov of Russia,
ambassador Bernard Fassier of France and ambassador Robert Bradtke of
the U.S. informed the Minsk Group about the latest events in the
negotiations on settling the conflict at the meeting in Vienna.

Nagorno-Karabakh is located inside Azerbaijan but has a mainly ethnic
Armenian population. It declared itself independent in 1991 leading to
a three-year war.

From: A. Papazian