UK’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus expects positive results in Karabakh issue by June.
Although the UK is not a member of the Minsk Group, but it supports the co-chairmen and the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, UK’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Sir Bryan Fall said.
“I was able to have informal meetings with the American and French Co-chairs as well as with the Russian ambassador to Armenia and now I’m much better informed than I was. The main principle is to have a peace paper agreed by the sides. There is much to be done and there is a busy program of meetings which will help produce positive results by June,” he stated in a conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
“Efforts should be doubled to find a solution. And success means a compromise from both sides. The spring is usually an active period when ministers and presidents meet and progress can be achieved,” he added.
UK is concerned over the increases number of victims on contact line as a result of escalation of tensions, according to UK’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus.
“The disaster that would follow from the new fighting is so obvious. Efforts should be doubled on both sides to find a solution.”
UK’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus commented on the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations
“We always hope. I think it’s important that two countries with which we have friendly relations are able to move from this artificial position. Elections in Turkey are coming soon and I do not think that any one expects any major change before them. If the problem was easy it would have been solved long ago,” Sir Bryan Fall pointed out.
“The protocols were a huge step forward, in our view. They haven’t been ratified, which is a pity, but they haven’t disappeared either and probably we will come back to them,” he said.
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