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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    OSCE MG FM statement can facilitate Karabakh process
    06.12.2008 16:15 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met in
    Helsinki with Finnish Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman-in-Office
    Alexander Stubb to discuss the recent developments in the Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict settlement process.

    `The statement adopted by Foreign Ministers of the OSCE MG co-chair
    states can facilitate the Karabakh process,' Mr. Nalbandian said.

    Ministers Nalbandian and Stubb also exchanged views on development of
    the Armenian-Finnish relations.

    Foreign Ministers of France, Russia, and the United States - the
    co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group - issued a joint
    declaration of the on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which says:

    `We, the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group's Co-Chair
    countries ` France, Russia, and the United States ` call on the
    parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to build on the positive
    momentum established during the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia
    and Azerbaijan in Moscow on November 2, 2008. The Moscow Declaration
    signed that same day opened a new and promising phase in our shared
    endeavor to expand peace in the South Caucasus. In that declaration,
    the Presidents reaffirm their commitment to advancing a peaceful
    settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the framework of the
    Basic Principles developed by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs in
    collaboration with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis
    of their proposals advanced last year in Madrid.

    We call on the parties to work with the Co-Chairs to finalize the
    Basic Principles in coming months, and then begin drafting a
    comprehensive peace settlement as outlined by those agreed
    principles. In keeping with the Moscow Declaration, we call on the
    parties to work with the Co-Chairs to develop confidence-building
    measures, beginning with pulling back snipers from the Line of Contact
    to save lives of innocent civilians and soldiers as our mediators
    already proposed to the sides at the highest level during the last
    visit mid November. It is urgent for the parties to work with each
    other, the Co-Chairs, and the Personal Representative of the Chairman
    in Office to stabilize the ceasefire through this and other
    measures. We reiterate our firm view that there is no military
    solution to the conflict and call on the parties to recommit to a
    peaceful resolution.'
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