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Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group comment on recent incidents along the Line of Contact

06 September 2010 11:12 (UTC +04:00)

The statement released by the Co-Chairs says that during the third full week of September, the Co-Chairs will travel to Washington, D.C. and then to New York to work with the sides on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
â€œDuring this period of intense activity, the Co-Chairs urge all parties to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage in serious dialogue. In response to the most recent incidents along the Line of Contact, they also strongly condemn any violation of the cease-fire, in particular incursions across the Line of Contact, deplore useless loss of life, and recall the statement of their Ministers in Almaty, that the use of force created the current situation, and its use again would only lead to suffering, devastation, and a legacy of conflict and hostility that would last for generations,â€ the statement says.