July 11, 2001 - 21:41 AMT
"ANY MODE OF SETTLEMENT SHOULD BE ACCEPTABLE FOR THE PEOPLE OF KARABAKH FIRST OF ALL," - RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT STATES
. Any mode of settling the Karabakh conflict should be acceptable for the parties to conflict, and the people of Karabakh first of all. First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov stated this at the meeting of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen with President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasian. As reported by "Arka" agency, Trubnikov noted the importance of approaches and views of the Karabakh party. "We do not want the people living in Karabakh to think that the mediators are trying to impose any solution," - he stated.
Today Trubnikov together with Co-Chairmen of OSCE Minsk Group Nikolay Gribkov (Russia), Kerry Kavano (USA) and Philip de Suremein (France) will participate in monitoring the contiguity line of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, held by the office of the personal representative of OSCE acting Chairman. After monitoring the mediators will cross the defense borders of NKR in a segment coordinated beforehand and will pass to the Azerbaijanian side.