Ireland to keep priority of settling Nagorno-Karabakh as OSCE chairman

OSCE needs to make practical contribution to settling regional conflicts as one of priorities of the organization, Irish Vice-Premier Imon Gilmore said, commenting on chairmanship in the OSCE in 2012 at the first session of the OSCE Permanent Council, Trend reports.

Ireland will set searches for solution of long-lasting conflicts as another priority of the OSCE in the region.

Gilmore welcomed renewal of negotiations to settle the Transnistria conflict and offered the OSCE Minsk Group full support to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He also offered support for Georgia within the framework of the negotiations in Geneva on the conflict of 2008.