"Without admitting that human rights violations exist in these countries, the European Union cannot expect to address them in a meaningful way," the report says.

A new war can lead to destabilization in the whole South Caucasus, Rino Harnish stated.

Javier Solana will hold tete-a-tete meetings with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

When politics mixes with economy, the latter always suffers, Sergey Mironov stated.

The reaction of the Armenian side is as well important for official Baku, head of International Relations Department of President Administration of Azerbaijan stated.

Speaking at the press conference in Astana, reelected President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev expressed willingness to mediate the Karabakh conflict. "Interethnic conflicts between neighbors bring about only grief and unhappiness for people. Therefore, I am ready to take part in the settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia", he said. This revelation of the Kazakh President is quite unexpected since Kazakhstan can hardly be called a neutral country in the Karabakh problem.