OSCE SECRETARY GENERAL: “THE EXISTING STATUS-QUO IS UNACCEPTABLE”
APA
July 9 2012
Azerbaijan
Lamberto Zannier: “We are seriously concerned about the incidents
occurred in the contact line and on Azerbaijan-Armenia border”
Baku. Victoria Dementieva – APA. Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar
Mammadyarov met with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier. APA
reports that the settlement process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
was discussed at the joint press conference following the meeting. He
informed the secretary general that the OSCE has been engaged in the
settlement of the conflict for 20 years, but the result has not been
achieved yet.
Zannier recalled that it was his first visit to Azerbaijan as OSCE
Secretary General. The Secretary General said that he discussed the
OSCE-Azerbaijan cooperation on all specters with the foreign minister.
Zannier announced that he will include the settlement of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict in agenda during his visit to Armenia.
The Secretary General noted that the co-chairs would pay the next
visit to the region on July 10: “We are seriously concerned about
the incidents occurred in the contact line and on Azerbaijan-Armenia
border. Such incidents causing human losses are inadmissible and
necessary measures should be taken to prevent such incidents. The
existing status-quo is unacceptable”.
Zannier said that the OSCE proposed several measures towards the
withdrawal of snipers, investigation of incidents and confidence
building: “The negotiations process have no alternative. It needs to
find the conflict’s settlement, but it is impossible to enforce the
settlement. The sides must come to agreement themselves. The OSCE is
ready to make its own contribution to it”.
Commenting on the OSCE’s proposals for investigating the incidents
in the contact line, Mammadyarov said that the problem is not
the mechanisms, but occupation of Azerbaijani lands by Armenia:
“If Armenia withdraws its army there will be no need for snipers”.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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