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OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE CALLS ON ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN TO SETTLE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 4 2007
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel
Moratinos, said to Ìediamax agency in an exclusive interview that
Armenia and Azerbaijan have to use the present opportunity for
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"I know that both countries seek to overcome current difficulties.
So, I am in an optimistic mood. Both sides have to use this
opportunity. It is time to make the move," the Chairman, who begins
his visit to Baku and Yerevan on 4 June, said.
Miguel Angel Moratinos said in the interview that his meeting with the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in Madrid at the beginning of May was very
fruitful. "I congratulate the Ambassadors Mr Facier and Merzlakov,
and the US Assistant Deputy Secretary of State, Mathew Bryza, on
perfect work and express my gratitude to Armenian and Azerbaijani
authorities for their willingness to cooperate with the mediators
for a settlement to the conflict," Moratinos said.
Speaking on whether he believed in the willingness of Azerbaijan to
agree on holding a referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moratinos said,
"It is not easy to balance sovereignty and territorial integrity with
the right to self-determination. Both of them are universal principles
used in different circumstances. I am confident that Azerbaijan and
Armenia can find a way out through principles more convenient for
settlement of the situation which harms thousands of people who have
the right to a worthy, peaceful and happy life."
Commenting on the fact that one of the OSCE Minsk Group's co-chairmen,
Russia, states that possible independence of Kosovo can become
a precedent for other lingering conflicts, while the other two
co-chairmen, France and the United States, stick to the opposite,
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office said, "The conflicts in the OSCE territory
greatly diverse. France, Russia and the United States being co-chairmen
do not consider it expedient to use providential formulas as the
diverse situations will make the formulas unable to function."
--Boundary_(ID_cjmFrSCM7r5q78TFHm eP0g)--
TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 4 2007
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel
Moratinos, said to Ìediamax agency in an exclusive interview that
Armenia and Azerbaijan have to use the present opportunity for
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"I know that both countries seek to overcome current difficulties.
So, I am in an optimistic mood. Both sides have to use this
opportunity. It is time to make the move," the Chairman, who begins
his visit to Baku and Yerevan on 4 June, said.
Miguel Angel Moratinos said in the interview that his meeting with the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen in Madrid at the beginning of May was very
fruitful. "I congratulate the Ambassadors Mr Facier and Merzlakov,
and the US Assistant Deputy Secretary of State, Mathew Bryza, on
perfect work and express my gratitude to Armenian and Azerbaijani
authorities for their willingness to cooperate with the mediators
for a settlement to the conflict," Moratinos said.
Speaking on whether he believed in the willingness of Azerbaijan to
agree on holding a referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moratinos said,
"It is not easy to balance sovereignty and territorial integrity with
the right to self-determination. Both of them are universal principles
used in different circumstances. I am confident that Azerbaijan and
Armenia can find a way out through principles more convenient for
settlement of the situation which harms thousands of people who have
the right to a worthy, peaceful and happy life."
Commenting on the fact that one of the OSCE Minsk Group's co-chairmen,
Russia, states that possible independence of Kosovo can become
a precedent for other lingering conflicts, while the other two
co-chairmen, France and the United States, stick to the opposite,
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office said, "The conflicts in the OSCE territory
greatly diverse. France, Russia and the United States being co-chairmen
do not consider it expedient to use providential formulas as the
diverse situations will make the formulas unable to function."
--Boundary_(ID_cjmFrSCM7r5q78TFHm eP0g)--