Expert: replacement of France in OSCE MG will protract Karabakh talks

March 24, 2012 – 15:20 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian political analyst forecasts protraction of
Nagorno Karabakh talks in case of replacement of France with the EU in
the OSCE Minsk Group.

According to Alexander Manasyan, Minsk Group’s bureaucratic system
will be much more complicated with EU’s joining the negotiation
process. The expert further noted that the EU’s position in 90s was
quite favorable for Karabakh and urged Armenia to remind EU
representatives of it. Mr. Manasyan said that EU accused Azerbaijan of
attempting to involve Armenia in the war in its statement in 1993.

On March 23, European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs
adopted a document on Armenia, proposing to replace France’s mandate
in OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement with that
of the European Union. The document is to be put to vote at European
Parliament’s plenary session supposedly in a month.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress