December 13, 2005 - 18:35 AMT
Solana Hopes for Progress in Karabakh Issue in 2006
EU Honorary Commissioner for Foreign Policy and Security Javier Solana spoke for soonest possible completion of technical consultations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia over the working out of bilateral Action Plans within the European Neighborhood Policy. Today Mr. Solana met with FMs of those countries in Brussels. As Solana told journalists himself, during the talks prospects of settlement of the so-called "frozen" conflicts were discussed at the talks. Thereupon he hoped for considerable progress to be made in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in 2006. He also stated the positive course of settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.