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    Interfax, Russia
    March 23 2012


    Russian, U.S., French top foreign policy officials urge faster
    Karabakh settlement

    MOSCOW. March 23


    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State
    Hillary Clinton French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said talks alone
    can guarantee stability in the Karabakh conflict zone.

    Presidents Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy
    reaffirmed in their joint statement in Deauville on May 24 2011, that
    talks alone can bring the settlement process to peace, stability and
    reconciliation, while all attempts to use force while settling the
    conflict will only bring more suffering to the region, where
    uncertainty and the absence of security have existed far too long, the
    Russian, American and French top foreign policy officials said in a
    joint statement, posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.


    On the occasion of the 20th anniversary since the official proposal
    was made to convene a conference on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the
    foreign ministers of the countries chairing the Organization for
    Security and Cooperation in Europe's Minsk Group urge the parties to
    demonstrate political will needed to achieve a long-lasting peaceful
    settlement," the foreign ministers said.

    "We emphatically urge the parties' leaders to complete the work on the
    framework agreement as soon as possible and negotiate a final
    settlement pattern, based on the principles, laid down in the Helsinki
    Final Act, which envisions the non-use of force and the threat of
    using force, as well territorial integrity, self-determination and
    equality of states, on the UN Charter and on international law, which
    will allow the whole of the region to overcome status-quo and start
    moving towards a safer future and prosperity," the statement says.

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