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OSCE CHAIRPERSON STRESSES NEED FOR CONTINUED EFFORTS TOWARDS SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

Today
June 27 2011
Azerbaijan

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius
Ažubalis, stressed today the importance to continue the efforts
towards reaching a comprehensive peace settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh,
while commenting on yesterday’s meeting in Kazan of Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev, the OSCE official website reported.

“I welcome the efforts in reaching common understanding on a number of
issues whose resolution will help create the conditions for approval of
the Basic Principles. I hope the work to address the outstanding issues
will be continued, to pave the way towards resolving the conflict,”
Ažubalis said.

The summit of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia
ended without reaching an agreement on the basic principles of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, but the sides mentioned the
progress towards this goal, a joint statement after the summit in
Kazan said, RIA Novosti reported.

The Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Dmitry Medvedev of Russia
and Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia discussed the basic principles of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement on Friday in Kazan.

“The Heads of State highlighted the achievement of mutual understanding
on a number of issues, the solution of which contributes to creating
conditions to approve the basic principles,” said the statement.

The document says that the meeting participants reviewed the activities
conducted to agree upon the project of basic principles.

“The OSCE stands ready to support and complement, including via my
Personal Representative on the conflict, any efforts made at the
tripartite level and under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group
Co-Chairs, to put an end to confrontation and instability in the
South Caucasus,” Ažubalis said.

Ažubalis emphasized the need for strengthening the ceasefire regime.

“I encourage the leaders to follow through on the agreements made in
the previous tripartite meetings in Astrakhan in October 2010 and in
Sochi in March this year, including to investigate possible incidents
on the Line of Contact and refrain from the threat or use of force,”
he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress