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60370
Wed, 05/13/2009 - 14:06
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FRENCH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS ISSUES STATEMENT ON 15th ANNIVERSARY OF AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA CEASEFIRE
Paris, May 13 (AzerTAc). The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs has released a statement on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Azerbaijan-Armenia ceasefire.
The statement reads:
“France co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group with the United States and Russia and is continuing efforts to help Armenia and Azerbaijan forge a just and lasting settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. France welcomes the meeting between Presidents Sarkissian and Aliyev, which took place at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Prague on May 7 on the initiative of the mediating countries.
This is the fourth meeting in less than a year between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, evidence of the vitality that exists in the continuing negotiation process and the constructive nature of the relationship that has been established between them. As a result of the meeting several areas of potential compromise have been identified among the proposals put forward by the mediators in Madrid at the end of 2007.
France , jointly with the United States and Russia, calls on the parties to the conflict to make even more progress at their next meeting, particularly in St. Petersburg, where the mediators are suggesting they meet again at the beginning of June.
Although May 11, 2009, coincides with the 15 th anniversary of the cease-fire that led to the end of the widespread hostilities between the two countries, France condemns the fact that casualties are still occurring as a result of the conflict and calls on the parties to rigorously enforce the provisions of the initial cease-fire and the subsequent texts aimed at consolidating them.”
The statement reads:
“France co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group with the United States and Russia and is continuing efforts to help Armenia and Azerbaijan forge a just and lasting settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. France welcomes the meeting between Presidents Sarkissian and Aliyev, which took place at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Prague on May 7 on the initiative of the mediating countries.
This is the fourth meeting in less than a year between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, evidence of the vitality that exists in the continuing negotiation process and the constructive nature of the relationship that has been established between them. As a result of the meeting several areas of potential compromise have been identified among the proposals put forward by the mediators in Madrid at the end of 2007.
France , jointly with the United States and Russia, calls on the parties to the conflict to make even more progress at their next meeting, particularly in St. Petersburg, where the mediators are suggesting they meet again at the beginning of June.
Although May 11, 2009, coincides with the 15 th anniversary of the cease-fire that led to the end of the widespread hostilities between the two countries, France condemns the fact that casualties are still occurring as a result of the conflict and calls on the parties to rigorously enforce the provisions of the initial cease-fire and the subsequent texts aimed at consolidating them.”
