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    OFFICIAL STATEMENT: OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS EXPECT ACTIVITY FROM NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SIDES

    Today
    http://www.today.az/news/politics/73067.html
    Sept 6 2010
    Azerbaijan

    OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs - Ambassador Bernard Fassier of France,
    Ambassador Robert Bradtke of the United States; Ambassador Igor
    Popov of the Russian Federation expect particular activity of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sides in the next few months, OSCE Minsk
    Group's official statement says. As part of their efforts to facilitate
    negotiations for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs expect to be particularly
    active in the months leading up to the OSCE Summit, the statement says.

    The statement reads that the Co-Chairs will travel to Baku, Yerevan,
    and Nagorno-Karabakh September 6-10 to discuss additional actions
    necessary to strengthen the cease-fire, to promote a spirit of
    compromise by all parties, and to finalize modalities for further
    action. During the third full week of September, the Co-Chairs will
    travel to Washington, D.C. and then to New York to work with the
    sides on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.

    Between late September and mid October, the Co-Chairs will return
    to the region to conduct the field assessment mission to observe the
    humanitarian situation in the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh
    that they had discussed previously with the sides in recent months
    and the principle of which had already been agreed with the sides
    before summer. A team of high-level advisors and experts, including
    representatives from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner
    for Refugees and others, are expected to accompany the Co-Chairs on
    their mission, which will be the first international mission in these
    territories since the OSCE fact finding mission in early 2005. Shortly
    thereafter, the Co-Chairs will brief the OSCE Minsk Group in Vienna on
    their findings. Then the Co-Chairs will present their annual activity
    report to the OSCE Permanent Council and actively prepare the OSCE
    Summit in Astana with the sides.

    During this period of intense activity, the Co-Chairs urge all parties
    to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the
    ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise
    necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public
    statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage
    in serious dialogue. In response to the most recent incidents along
    the contact line, they also strongly condemn any violation of the
    cease-fire, in particular incursions across the contact line, deplore
    useless loss of life, and recall the statement of their Ministers in
    Almaty, that the use of force created the current situation, and its
    use again would only lead to suffering, devastation, and a legacy of
    conflict and hostility that would last for generations.




    From: A. Papazian
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