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WILL KOCHARIAN DEMONSTRATE POLITICAL WILL-POWER?
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[07:29 pm] 06 July, 2007
Goran Lennmarker, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly,
announced that the framework document on the Karabakh conflict
resolution is already ready.
"For some time now, I have talked about 'a golden opportunity'
for an agreement and now, after another visit to the Caucasus, I
believe more than ever in that opportunity," said Goran Lennmarker,
the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
A good framework agreement that addresses the main concerns of all
parties has been presented by the Minsk Group, co-chaired by France,
Russia and the United States, he said. It is ready to be signed by
the leaders of the two countries, if the political will is there.
"The alternative, a new war, is unthinkable." The advantages of
a peace accord for the two countries, Armenia and Azerbaijan,
are huge. Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons
and refugees could return and re-start their lives. With a peace
agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh, he continued, the two countries and
Georgia could, in earnest, work to build a region characterized by
security, democracy and prosperity.
He said that as Western Europe reaches out eastward, it was
important to understand the difficulties in building new, independent
nations. That work will not be completed overnight. But engagement
must continue not just for the sake of these countries but for the
sake of all of Europe.
A1+
[07:29 pm] 06 July, 2007
Goran Lennmarker, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly,
announced that the framework document on the Karabakh conflict
resolution is already ready.
"For some time now, I have talked about 'a golden opportunity'
for an agreement and now, after another visit to the Caucasus, I
believe more than ever in that opportunity," said Goran Lennmarker,
the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
A good framework agreement that addresses the main concerns of all
parties has been presented by the Minsk Group, co-chaired by France,
Russia and the United States, he said. It is ready to be signed by
the leaders of the two countries, if the political will is there.
"The alternative, a new war, is unthinkable." The advantages of
a peace accord for the two countries, Armenia and Azerbaijan,
are huge. Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons
and refugees could return and re-start their lives. With a peace
agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh, he continued, the two countries and
Georgia could, in earnest, work to build a region characterized by
security, democracy and prosperity.
He said that as Western Europe reaches out eastward, it was
important to understand the difficulties in building new, independent
nations. That work will not be completed overnight. But engagement
must continue not just for the sake of these countries but for the
sake of all of Europe.