WHAT DID THE CO-CHAIRS TRANSFER?

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French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassie says that the Foreign Ministers of the countries co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group transferred a “technical” document to the sides of the conflict. According to Fassie, the document may contribute to the efforts aimed at the conflict settlement and step up the agreement on general principles.

“The document must still be developed, studied, receive the consent or rejection of the sides,” underlined the French co-chair.

Bernard Fassie informed that the Foreign Ministers of Russia and France, as well as U.S. Under-Secretary-of-State met with Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers last week in Helsinki and proposed a schedule, which will provide the opportunity to come to an agreement on the general principles for the Karabakh conflict settlement by the first half of the upcoming year.

“In general, the last meeting of the OSCE Foreign Ministers in Helsinki was very useful and essential in terms of settlement of the Karabakh conflict,” added Bernard Fassie and said: “First, Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers discussed the settlement process for more than five hours. The French, Russian Foreign Ministers and the U.S. Under-Secretary-of-State persuaded the sides to take one step forward to strengthen mutual confidence and called on dislocating marksmen from the front.”

Bernard Fassie recalled that the Minsk Group intermediaries had proposed the same to the sides two weeks earlier and said:

“That step will show how loyal the sides are to the Moscow declaration according to which the sides agreed to step up efforts to reinforce mutual confidence.”

“Azatutyun” radio