November 7, 2012 - 19:22 AMT
Lord Kilclooney says no chance of MG settling Karabakh issue

There is no chance of OSCE Minsk Group settling the Nagorno Karabakh problem, John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney said at House of Lords debate on UK's relations with Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus.

“I was deputy leader of my own party in Parliament when we negotiated the Anglo-Irish agreement. There were three elements to it. One element was Irish-British relations. Another, of which I was in charge, was Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland relations. That was a very difficult subject, just like Armenia and Azerbaijan. You had to have an impartial chairman to succeed.

Once we have the Minsk process we do not have an impartial organization. I am sorry to say that it is biased in favor of Armenia,” Executive Secretary of the British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group Odette Bazil told PanARMENIAN.Net, quoting Baron Kilclooney as saying.