March 7, 2007 - 14:30 AMT
Freizer: Armenian parliamentary election to have little influence on Karabakh conflict
"I don't believe that the forthcoming Armenian parliamentary election is going to substantially affect the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. But of course it's too early to predict which party or parties will do well in the election, and the position that they will have on the conflict after being elected. We will monitor the Armenian elections, as we do all general political developments in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia," said Sabine Freizer, the Director of Europe Program of the International Crisis Group. When requested to comment on the OSCE MG activities, Ms. Freizer said, "This will be the subject of a report that we plan to publish in mid-2007. So until then, and our research is complete, I do not want to assess the OSCE Minsk Group's work," reports Trend news agency.