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    BERNARD FASSIER: STEPANAKERT WILL JOIN TALKS SOONER OR LATER

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    03.03.2009 12:24 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ OSCE Minsk Group French Co-chair welcomed Yerevan
    and Baku's positive assessments of the presidential meeting in Zurich.

    "We held productive meetings in Stepanakert with President Bako
    Sahakyan and representatives of non-governmental organizations. Talks
    in Baku and Yerevan also proved efficient. Now we are planning
    to return to Baku to meet with President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign
    Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. I am hopeful we will succeed in arranging
    a presidential meeting within the coming months," Ambassador Bernard
    Fassier told a news conference in Yerevan on Tuesday.

    At that he noted that Azerbaijan's ongoing attempts to discredit
    Armenia in the UN hamper the process badly.

    The mediators also emphasized that the issue of Armenian and Azeri
    refugees is on the agenda as one of the key elements of the negotiation
    process.

    Touching on NKR participation in talks, Ambassador Fassier said that
    Nagorno Karabakh will be engaged in the process one day.

    "We always visit Stepanakert after meetings in Baku and Yerevan. But
    inclusion of Karabakh into talks depends on the parties to conflict,"
    he said.

    For his part, Russian Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov that the incident
    which took place during the recent OSCE monitoring will be discussed
    at the OSCE Permanent Council's meeting on March 5.

    "We expect the council to support the statement Ambassador Andrzej
    Kasprzyk will submit in Vienna," he said.
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