YEREVAN, March 9. /Mediamax/. "Georgia is vitally interested in the soonest settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as a factor impeding regional integration", deputy head of the Service of International Relations of the State office of Georgia, Shalva Pichkhadze said, commenting at the request of Prime-News agency on the recent Parisian meeting of presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Heydar Aliyev and Robert Kocharian.
Pichkhadze noted that regional Caucasian conflicts, especially the Karabakh dispute as a conflict between two neighboring states, impede the South Caucasus to establish closer ties with Europe, which, undoubtedly, meets all the vital interests of Georgia.
Pichkhadze reminded that President Eduard Shevardnadze had repeatedly stated of the willingness of Georgia to become a mediator in the Karabakh peace process, but the Georgian leader had noted at the same time that Armenia and Azerbaijan should first of all wish that.
"Realistically speaking, only the great powers participating in the OSCE Minsk Group, are able to eradicate the reasons which provoked the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Pichkhadze noted. --0--