President Nursultan Nazarbayev has commented on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh during an interview with Euronews.
The interview centred on Kazakhstan's role as chairman of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe and looked at the forthcoming OSCE summit in Astana on 1 and 2 December.
Commenting on challenges during Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship, Nursultan Nazarbayev told Euronews: "I would like to note in the context of the substance of the summit that another serious challenge for the Kazakh chairmanship has been helping to resolve long drawn-out conflicts in the South Caucasus and Pridnestrovye.
"I am glad to note progress on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as part of the OSCE Minsk Group. In October, for the first time in five years, a group of international experts travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh under the aegis of the OSCE to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground."
On 13 October, the OSCE field assessment mission completed its trip to the areas around Karabakh occupied by Armenian forces and is at present drawing up its report.
On the recent trilateral summit of the Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Astrakhan, Nazarbayev said: "We welcome the joint declaration by President Dmitriy Medvedev, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev of 27 October in which Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on an exchange of prisoners of war and the return of the bodies of the deceased with the help of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross."
POW Eldar Tagiyev has been returned to Azerbaijan since the signing of the agreement. Azerbaijan has returned to Armenia the remains of two citizens, Manvel Saribekyan and Gavrusha Arustamyan, while Armenia has returned the remains of Mubariz Ibrahimov and Farid Ahmadov.
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