Transitional status must be established for Karabakh during conflict settlement process: french diplomat
13.03.2010,
02:11
The French cochairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard Fassier, said today in Yerevan a transitional status must be established for Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) during the conflict settlement process.
YEREVAN, March 12, /ARKA/. The French cochairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard Fassier, said today in Yerevan a transitional status must be established for Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) during the conflict settlement process. He was speaking at a Rose Roth seminar organized by the Parliamentary Assembly of the NATO.
He said any conflict solution option must provide for a transitional status for Nagorno-Karabakh ensuring its security, a progressive return of Armenian-controlled territories (to Azerbaijan), as well as the return of Azerbaijani refugees to their previous homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, preservation of an overland corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and deployment of international (peacekeeping) forces.
He said the Kosovo precedent is often mentioned in the context of efforts aimed at the solution of the Karabakh conflict. This is why, he said, peace brokers suggest that all aspects of the issue which can be solved, be solved and the status issue be left for future, as was the case in Kosovo.
“This is why it is necessary to establish a transitional status for Nagorno-Karabakh unless the international community recognizes its independence,’ the French diplomat said.
In his words, the Kosovo precedent has made Azerbaijan more cautious, restraint and careful, while Armenians in Armenia proper and Nagorno-Karabakh it as a solution option.
“However, what was possible in Kosovo, is impossible in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is not recognized by any country, neither by Armenia,’ Bernard Fassier said, adding that the differences between Kosovo and Nagorno-Karabakh are greater than similarities.
‘The Kosovo problem emerged within one state, while the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a conflict between several sides,’ he said. -0-
He said any conflict solution option must provide for a transitional status for Nagorno-Karabakh ensuring its security, a progressive return of Armenian-controlled territories (to Azerbaijan), as well as the return of Azerbaijani refugees to their previous homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, preservation of an overland corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and deployment of international (peacekeeping) forces.
He said the Kosovo precedent is often mentioned in the context of efforts aimed at the solution of the Karabakh conflict. This is why, he said, peace brokers suggest that all aspects of the issue which can be solved, be solved and the status issue be left for future, as was the case in Kosovo.
“This is why it is necessary to establish a transitional status for Nagorno-Karabakh unless the international community recognizes its independence,’ the French diplomat said.
In his words, the Kosovo precedent has made Azerbaijan more cautious, restraint and careful, while Armenians in Armenia proper and Nagorno-Karabakh it as a solution option.
“However, what was possible in Kosovo, is impossible in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is not recognized by any country, neither by Armenia,’ Bernard Fassier said, adding that the differences between Kosovo and Nagorno-Karabakh are greater than similarities.
‘The Kosovo problem emerged within one state, while the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a conflict between several sides,’ he said. -0-