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    Euro-reporters.com, Belgium
    July 2 2005

    Nagorno Karabakh again
    Written by Brussels journalist David Ferguson
    Saturday, 02 July 2005

    "There is no alternative to a peaceful solution. In fact there is an
    urgent need to solve the conflict in order to end the personal,
    economic and social suffering on both sides," says Swedish MP Göran
    Lennmarker, who, in 2002, was appointed OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
    Special Representative on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

    The armed spat that broke out between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis
    in the dying days of the Soviet Union, leaving 30,000 dead, is far
    from frozen according to Lennmarker. "Several people are killed along
    the line-of-contact every year," says the Swede. By the time a
    ceasefire was brokered in 1994, the conflict had left territories
    occupied and over a million displaced people in miserable conditions
    on both sides.

    Lennmarker was speaking yesterday in Washington at the OSCE's
    Parliamentary Assembly annual session. His report on Nagorno Karabakh
    vied, together with documents on the Akhaz and Transnistrian
    conflicts, and a host of other issues, for the attention of 800
    participants, including almost 300 parliamentarians from the 55
    participating states. Thirty years after its foundation by the
    Helsinki Final Act in 1975, OSCE parliamentarians are also discussing
    the organization's future and attempting to gain greater
    accountability from the OSCE headquarters in Vienna.

    A draft resolution also up for discussion in Washington, proposed by
    Azerbaijan MP Sattar Safarov, notes that the conflict "has led to the
    occupation of 20% of the territories of Azerbaijan, including the
    Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjacent districts by the Armenian
    armed forces and [the] flow of about one million refugees and
    internally displaced people..." Safarov's proposed resolution calls
    for Armenia to withdraw military forces from "all occupied
    territories of Azerbaijan" and urges "Armenia to stop the
    continuation of the settlement of civilian population in the occupied
    territories of Azerbaijan, which can impede the peaceful solution of
    the conflict."

    Appointed OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on the
    Nagorno Karabakh conflict in June 2002, Lennmarker still remains
    optimistic of the chances for a peace settlement and talks of 'golden
    opportunities' and 'win-win concepts'. Lennmarker says OSCE
    parliamentarians from Armenia and Azerbaijan have also contributed to
    dialogue. "Once a peace agreement has been finalized by the two
    Governments, the parliamentary dimension becomes invaluable in
    informing the public and in ensuring the implementation. It is of
    utmost importance that networks of Members of Parliaments already
    exist and stand ready to take on these tasks."

    http://euro-reporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id= 108&Itemid=1
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