THE AUTHOR OF "STABILITY PACT" FOR THE CAUCASUS WILL VISIT THE REGION IN THE NEAR FUTURE

PanARMENIAN.Net - 11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX. Michael Emerson - the author of "Stability Pact" project for the Caucasian region, worked out by the Center for European Policy Studies, located in Brussels, will visit the region and hold meetings with the authorities of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the near future. About this declared today the foreign minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian at the press conference in the National press club, replying to the question of MEDIAMAX.

The Center has directed in May the "Stability Pact" project to the authorities of France, as to a country having the chairmanship in the European Union beginning July 1. One can get acquainted with the full version of the "Stability Pact" on the Institute's web site - www.ceps.be.

In fact, the center proposes to make use of the idea of the retired president of Turkey Suleyman Demirel and to create Caucasus G8, in the composition of which the European Union, Russia, the USA, Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will be included.

The German minister of foreign affairs Joschka Fischer supported the idea of creating the "Stability Pact" for the region of the Southern Caucasus speaking on July 4 at the conference in Berlin.

The head of the ministry of foreign affairs of Germany noted that "all the problems in the Caucasus must be discussed at negotiation table so that the enemies should become partners". Fischer also noted that he thought impossible the military solution of crisis situations in the Caucasus. "The only possible solution is a political settlement, to achieve which interests of all the engaged parties should be taken into consideration". -0-