OSCE MG Hopes for Creating "New Opportunities" in Karabakh Talks
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group intend to visit the Nagorno Karabakh conflict region in May, OSCE MG French co-chair Bernard Fassier stated in Baku April 11. Co-chairs' trips to the region aim at possible rapprochement of the parties to conflict, the mediator said. He hoped that the visit will convey an impulse to the new phase of talks. Last year the mediators did much, but it was not managed to attain progress at the Rambouillet meeting of the presidents, Fassier remarked. He expressed co-chairs' hopes for creation of "new opportunities" in the talks, which will pave way for new meetings of the presidents.
The French co-chair stated that he had arrived in Baku with specific proposals, but he could not reveal these. There is nothing especially new about them, he added. In his words, The MG can only provide new ideas to help attain peace. The responsibility to find a middle line at the talks lies on the parties of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Fassier underscored. In the former half of the day Fassier had talks with Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov. The meeting was held behind closed doors and no statements were made after it, reports Trend.
The French co-chair stated that he had arrived in Baku with specific proposals, but he could not reveal these. There is nothing especially new about them, he added. In his words, The MG can only provide new ideas to help attain peace. The responsibility to find a middle line at the talks lies on the parties of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Fassier underscored. In the former half of the day Fassier had talks with Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov. The meeting was held behind closed doors and no statements were made after it, reports Trend.
