NATO SEC. GEN.: ALLIANCE SHOULD NOT PLAY DIRECT ROLE IN SOLUTION OF KARABAKH ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net - «I suppose the NATO should not work for playing a direct role in the settlement of conflicts in Nagorno Karabakh and Transdniestria. We should not substitute for the OSCE or the Council of Europe,» said NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. «Besides, the Minsk Group of mediators (US, Russia and France) is engaged in the Nagorno Karabakh problem,» he noted. In his words, here the NATO has to make as much effort as possible to strengthen the atmosphere of confidence based on the respect of the territorial integrity of states. «This also refers to regions as Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The settlement of the issue of the status of Russian military bases in Georgia was a positive more lately. We are not going to assume the role of a gendarme of the world,» Jaap de Hoop Scheffer added, reported the Novye Izvestia.