“Ceasefire should be maintained, to be maintained like it used to, Kasprzyk’s office, capabilities should be expanded and agreements should be reached around mechanisms,” Steinmeier said.
He uncovered purpose of his regional visit—to Yerevan, then to Baku and Tbilisi. According to him, OSCE primary issues, NK conflict settlement process are put forward. In the focus of Yerevan dialogue were those topics, and they’ll cover NK issue with RA president, as a primary issue.
Edward Nalbandian and Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed steps aimed at further strengthening of relations between Armenia and the European Union, and in particular, the process of negotiations over the new comprehensive agreement with the EU.
Firstly, E.Nalbandian stated that after each negotiation the Azerbaijani side makes statements contradicting the topic of negotiations in Baku. He qualified it as false versions, at the same time hinting that it was expected from the Azerbaijani side.
“We need to find security possibilities for NK conflict,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, told at today’s joint press conference with Edward Nalbandian, RA Foreign Minister, touching upon his message with which he’ll head for Baku.
“Only stability with economic improvement, free market relations, rule of law, democratic criteria may move forward countries, like Armenia and Azerbaijan, to conflict settlement. For peace all these conditions may become a reality in European and Euro Atlantic organizations in case of further rapprochement of the region,” he said.
“The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has the potential to escalate. During Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship we bear responsibility for reducing this danger as much as possible by strengthening the ceasefire, by taking confidence-building measures and by ensuring the imminent start of the negotiations,” Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin prior to his visit to the South Caucasus.
“NATO doesn’t plan to attack or violate Armenia’s air space, thus this joint mechanism can’t be observed as a means against NATO, meanwhile the sides—Armenia and Russia didn’t state on it,” Batu Kutelia noticed.
