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    MEDIATORS AMEND DRAFT KARABAKH PEACE PROPOSALS

    Georgiandaily
    http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_con tent&task=view&id=13551&Itemid=65
    July 29 2009
    Georgia

    The French, Russian, and U.S. co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group that
    seeks to mediate a political solution to the Karabakh conflict have
    modified the so-called Madrid Principles intended to serve as the basis
    for such an agreement, U.S. co-Chairman Matthew Bryza told RFE/RL's
    Armenian Service on July 27 following two days of consultations in
    Krakow with his fellow co-chairs.

    In a statement issued on July 10 on the sidelines of the Group of
    Eight summit in L'Aquila, the presidents of France, Russia, and the
    United States tasked the co-chairs with preparing for presentation to
    the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents "an updated version of the
    Madrid Document of November 2007, the co-chairs' last articulation
    of the Basic Principles" first unveiled in June 2006.

    That L'Aquila statement "urge[d] the presidents of Armenia and
    Azerbaijan to resolve the few differences remaining between them
    and finalize their agreement on these Basic Principles, which will
    outline a comprehensive settlement" of the conflict.

    But discrepancies between the summary of the principles outlined in
    that statement and the original Basic Principles triggered protest and
    alarm in Armenia, especially among major opposition parties. Meeting
    on July 17-18 in Moscow, Presidents Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev
    apparently failed to narrow the outstanding differences between them.

    Bryza told RFE/RL on July 27 that the Krakow talks were "productive
    and creative," and that the three co-chairs have indeed "prepared
    an updated version of the Madrid Document" based on "careful"
    consideration of the views expressed by the sides since the unveiling
    of the Madrid Document in November 2007.

    In that context, Bryza specifically praised the input provided
    by former Armenian President Robert Kocharian and former Foreign
    Minister Vartan Oskanian, whose "thoughts and efforts helped lay the
    foundation for the Madrid Document." Bryza said their successors,
    President Sarkisian and current Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian,
    "have helped elicit progress in tough but constructive negotiations
    over the past year."

    The co-chairs are scheduled to travel to Armenia and Azerbaijan in
    August-September in the hope of paving the way for a meeting between
    Aliyev and Sarkisian on the sidelines of the CIS summit to be held
    in Chisinau.
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