MEETING WITH BAKO SAHAKYAN WAS PROMISING
Support A1+!“Today the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic participates at the NKR conflict regulation indirectly. I believe that one day it will become a negotiating part,” the Minsk group Co-Chairs announced in Yerevan today.
US Co-Chair Mettew Bryza refuted his announcement that the negotiation format might never change, while French co-chair Bernard Fassier said Bryza’s announcement referred rather to the OSCE Minsk group format than to the NKR negotiation format.
Fassier noted that any UN member-country can introduce the issue to the UN General Assembly but the document will be a mere resolution, nothing more.
Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov presented the outcome of their NKR visit. He stated that their meeting with NKR President Bako Sahakyan was very efficient. “He gave us interesting and useful information and we shall analyse it. It was our first meeting with Bako Sahakyan,” he said. The co-chairs met with Foreign Minster Vartan Oskanian and President Robert Kocharian in Yerevan. They noted that their meetings in the NKR and in the RA inspire optimism and voiced hope that tomorrow’s meeting will also be productive.
According to the co-chairs the negotiations and the presidents’ meetings will continue at the pre-election period on the level of FMs and Co-Chairs.
As for Azerbaijan’s militarist announcements, Bernard Fassier said, “We think that militaristic announcements do not promote the conflict regulation, therefore they are harmful.”
