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MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS ISSUE STATEMENT
Baku, September 6 (AzerTAc). OSCE Minsk Group`s Co-chairs Bernard Fassier (France), Robert Bradtke of the United States and Igor Popov of Russia released a statement today. In the statement the co-chairs emphasize that they expect the sides of the conflict to be particularly active in the months leading up to the OSCE Summit.
The Co-Chairs will travel to Baku, Yerevan, and Nagorno Karabakh on September 6-10 to discuss additional actions necessary to strengthen the cease-fire, to promote a spirit of compromise by all parties, and to finalize modalities for further action. During the third full week of September, the Co-Chairs will travel to Washington, D.C. and then to New York to work with the sides on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the statement says.
Between late September and mid October, the Co-Chairs will return to the region to conduct the field assessment mission to observe the humanitarian situation in the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh that they had discussed previously with the sides in recent months and the principle of which had already been agreed with the sides before summer.
A team of high-level advisors and experts, including representatives from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and others, are expected to accompany the Co-Chairs on their mission. Shortly thereafter, the Co-Chairs will brief the OSCE Minsk Group in Vienna on their findings. Then the Co-Chairs will present their annual activity report to the OSCE Permanent Council and actively prepare the OSCE Summit in Astana with the sides.
During this period of intense activity, the Co-Chairs urge all parties to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage in serious dialogue. In response to the most recent incidents along the Line of Contact, they also strongly condemn any violation of the cease-fire, in particular incursions across the Line of Contact, deplore useless loss of life, and recall the statement of their Ministers in Almaty, that the use of force created the current situation, and its use again would only lead to suffering, devastation, and a legacy of conflict and hostility that would last for generations, according to the statement.
The Co-Chairs will travel to Baku, Yerevan, and Nagorno Karabakh on September 6-10 to discuss additional actions necessary to strengthen the cease-fire, to promote a spirit of compromise by all parties, and to finalize modalities for further action. During the third full week of September, the Co-Chairs will travel to Washington, D.C. and then to New York to work with the sides on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the statement says.
Between late September and mid October, the Co-Chairs will return to the region to conduct the field assessment mission to observe the humanitarian situation in the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh that they had discussed previously with the sides in recent months and the principle of which had already been agreed with the sides before summer.
A team of high-level advisors and experts, including representatives from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and others, are expected to accompany the Co-Chairs on their mission. Shortly thereafter, the Co-Chairs will brief the OSCE Minsk Group in Vienna on their findings. Then the Co-Chairs will present their annual activity report to the OSCE Permanent Council and actively prepare the OSCE Summit in Astana with the sides.
During this period of intense activity, the Co-Chairs urge all parties to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage in serious dialogue. In response to the most recent incidents along the Line of Contact, they also strongly condemn any violation of the cease-fire, in particular incursions across the Line of Contact, deplore useless loss of life, and recall the statement of their Ministers in Almaty, that the use of force created the current situation, and its use again would only lead to suffering, devastation, and a legacy of conflict and hostility that would last for generations, according to the statement.
