March 31, 2005 - 10:35 AMT
DIMITRIJ RUPEL: BEFORE END OF SUMMER GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR TALKS BETWEEN
ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND NAGORNO KARABAKH OPENS
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel
has had a meeting with Nagorno Karabakh President Arkady Ghukasian, Regnum
news agency reported. In the course of a short conversation with
journalists Dimitrij Rupel specifically stated that "before the end of this
summer a good window for holding talks between Armenia, Azerbaijan and
Nagorno Karabakh opens. It will open a good prospect for peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict." In his turn Arkady Ghukasian
stated that he has acquainted the OSCE Chairman-in-Office with Nagorno
Karabakh stand over the settlement process and accentuated that it is
impossible to solve the problem without the participation of Stepanakert.
The Nagorno Karabakh President also informed that in the course of the
meeting the situation at the contact line was discussed and he asked Rupel
to take under control the processes taking place there. Arkady Ghukasian
suggested that OSCE send an observation mission to th!
e parliamentary election in Karabakh this June.