ARMENIA PRAISES FRANCE’S KARABAKH MEDIATION
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Sept 29 2011
Azerbaijan
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has described as “very
important” France’s role as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group of
mediators.
“‘France has always been active in the process of settling the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. I don’t think it needs to be any more
active in the OSCE Minsk Group,” Nalbandian told journalists in Paris,
Armenian website Panorama reported.
The minister was speaking after Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met
his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, and other French leaders in
Paris on Wednesday.
Nalbandian said that the three Minsk Group co-chairing countries –
France, the USA and Russia – worked well together on Karabakh.
“I’d like to underline that the three co-chairs cooperate
successfully. Look at the Deauville statement, which says that
the efforts by the Russian president and foreign minister are fully
supported by the United States and France. This cooperation is really
successful. As a co-chairing state, France has its own significant
role and we consider its efforts to be very important.”
The minister said that Sarkozy and Sargsyan enjoyed a relationship
of trust with 155 enterprises in Armenia having French funding.
The Armenian president discussed the expansion of energy and
transport cooperation during his meetings with French officials,
Edward Nalbandian said.
“Relations are developing intensively, but the potential is greater
and both sides are interested in expanding those relations,” the
minister said.
He said that French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Armenia in
October would be significant.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
