PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE RA NA DELEGATION TO OSCE PA
National Assemby of RA, Armenia
Oct 14 2011
On October 13 the press conference of the RA NA Delegation to OSCE
PA was held in the RA National Assembly.
Aram Safaryan, Head of the Armenian Delegation in OSCE PA, informed
those present that the Delegation took part in the OSCE PA Fall
Meetings in Dubrovnik, Croatia on October 7-11, after which a special
discussion-presentation was held dedicated to the role of the OSCE
in Nagorno Karabakh Conflict Resolution.
OSCE PA’s Special Representative on the South Caucasus, OSCE PA
President Emeritus Joao Soares presided over the discussion, which
lasted three hours. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov, Robert
Bradtke and Bernard Fassier, as well as the Personal Representative
of the OSCE Chair Andrzey Kasprzik delivered speeches.
Besides these speeches, there were also other speeches, among them
was, according to the arrangement, Aram Safaryan, Head of the RA
NA Delegation, who presented the our country’s position on the NK
conflict settlement.
As to Aram Safaryan, the majority of the speeches was constructive
and balanced mainly they defended the OSCE approaches and views on
the NK conflict settlement.
3-4 unbalanced and non-constructive speeches were also sounded.
Despite that circumstance the members of the delegation stressed
that the discussion was held in the constructive atmosphere, there
were mainly speeches defending the OSCE Minsk Group mission in the
issue of the NK conflict settlement. A number of proposals were made,
among them on the extention of the participation of the Parliamentary
Assembly in the process of the conflict settlement.
Mr. Safaryan stated that this discussion on the NK conflict settlement
differed from the previous ones with its format. The thing is, a
discussion was held in 2005 on the NK conflict settlement after the
package of the proposals “Golden Opportunity” by Goran Lennmarker,
previous reporter on the NK issue, was introduced.
It was mentioned that the visit of Joao Soares, OSCE PA’s Personal
Representative on the Nagorno Karabakh issue, OSCE PA President
Emeritus, was envisaged in the near future.
The delegation member Artak Davtyan noticed that all the autonomous
formations existing in the Balkans had a status of autonomous states,
as well as a comparison had been made between the Balkans and the South
Caucasus. He distinguished the words of the American Co-Chair Bradtke,
who noted that the three well-known principles, which existed at the
table of negotiation, were not a menu to choose whatever they wanted,
but integrity, and everybody should understand that. Mr.
Davtyan also highlighted the circumstance that Bradteke emphasized the
NK conflict settlement only in the Minsk group format and considered
inadmissible the transfer of it to other formats. Mr. Davtyan also
noted that the delegates of the OSCE member countries had the viewpoint
presented by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and which was consonant
with the notions and expectations of our country.
The member of the delegation Khachik Harutyunyan noted that idea ran
like a golden thread throughout the whole discussion, according to
which, it was Azerbaijan to impede the NK conflict settlement. They
had also repeatedly sounded the view that the delegates saw the NK
conflict settlement within the OSCE Minsk Group format.
The Head of the Delegation Aram Safaryan informed them that during
the Fall Meetings votes had not been held and no document had been
adopted, as required by the OSCE PA procedure.