Yerevan hails OSCE mission’s Karabakh report

Interfax, Russia
March 25 2011

Yerevan hails OSCE mission’s Karabakh report

YEREVAN. March 25

Yerevan hails OSCE mission’s Karabakh report
Armenia’s ruling Republican Party has welcomed a report drafted by a
mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE) Minsk Group, which visited the territories surrounding
Nagorno-Karabakh in November.

“It is an important circumstance that the report stressed the need for
cooperation between the sides. It is a positive factor that the
co-chairmen propose involving Stepanakert in the negotiating process
and insist on a peaceful solution to the problem,” Galust Saakyan,
deputy chairman of the Republican Party and leader of its
parliamentary faction, told journalists on Friday.

“It is also a positive development that the co-chairmen did not
believe Azeri propaganda claiming that drugs are grown on the
territories neighboring Nagorno-Karabakh and nuclear waste is dumped
there,” he said.

“On the whole, our assessment of this report is positive,” Saakyan said.

The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group demanded that a peaceful
solution be found to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh through
negotiations.

An OSCE mission worked in the region from November 7 to November 12,
2010 to assess the general situation there, including humanitarian
aspects.

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From: A. Papazian