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Greek Ambassador: â€œWe wish the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to be solved soonâ€

25 February 2009 15:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanovaâ€“APA. â€œThe Caucasus is particular partner for the OSCE chairmanshipâ€, said Greek Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ioannis Metaxas at the press conference on Wednesday, APA reports. Greece, as a chairmanship of the OSCE, expressed full support to the work of the Minsk Group, especially to the co-chairs, which is an organized way of international community to assist the countries to achieve the peaceful solution of the problem, said the ambassador.

Answering the question about the Greek Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairwoman-in-Office Dora Bakoyannisâ€™s ideas about the solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, which was objected by the Armenian Dasnaksutyun party, the ambassador said Greece had a standard policy in this area. â€œThere is a standard policy of Greece in this area, and this standard policy is not a new one and it comes from decades. It is the respect for international law and the respect for the decisions of the United Nations. We donâ€™t need to adjust our foreign policy. We have very long tradition of foreign policy and cannot change today the foreign policy according to the proposals of this or that special factor or part and etc. As a chairman of the OSCE, we should keep same distance between all participated states to the OSCE. We cannot say word to one participated state against the other specially when there is so important issue. The question of Karabakh being the protracted conflict, we wish that this problem to be solved soonâ€.