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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS HAS REAL PROSPECTS, OSCE MG CO-CHAIR STATES

    ARKA
    March 5, 2009

    YEREVAN, March 5. /ARKA/. Bernard Fassier, French Co-Chairman of the
    OSCE Minsk Group for the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, believes the
    OSCE MG Co-Chairmen's meetings held during their regional visit to
    have been full of content.

    This is evidence of the negotiations having prospects, Fassier told
    a press conference in Yerevan.

    He pointed out that the OSCE MG Co-Chairmen, who arrived in the region
    last week, visited Baku, where they met with Azerbaijani President
    Ilkham Aliyev.

    Fassier also reported that, during their visit to Stepanakert, the
    Co-Chairmen held a long meeting with president of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    President Bako Sahakyan, as well as with representatives of about 20
    NGOs, including the ones dealing with refugee problems.

    Fassier also reported that the Co-Chairs held a number of meetings
    with RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan and a long-lasting meeting
    with RA President Serge Sargsyan.

    After their visit to Yerevan the OSCE MG Co-Chairmen went to Baku to
    hold meetings with the Azerbaijani president and Foreign Minister.

    The French diplomat pointed out that the Co-Chair's visit to the
    region overlaps a period of special importance, namely, a period
    after the Armenian-Azerbaijani president meeting in Zurich.

    Fassier pointed out that each of the Presidents considers the meeting
    as a positive and constructive one. He sai d that the aforementioned
    positive factors are marred by a negative one, namely, documents
    condemning Armenia's position, which are circulating within the UN.

    Last year, by the instructions of the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister,
    two documents were submitted to the UN Secretary General: Report on the
    legal consequences of the armed aggression by the Republic of Armenia
    against the Republic of Azerbaijan and On basic norm of territorial
    integrity of states and on the right for self-determination in the
    light of Armenia's revisionist claims.

    On the other hand, Fassier pointed out that nothing special concerning
    Armenia was adopted.

    On May 12, 1994, a cease-fire agreement was signed between the Armenian
    and Azerbaijani sides.
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