The personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in -Office, Andrzej Kasprzyk, said today that there are grounds for optimism in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
According to Trend, Kasprzyk explained that this and the meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, in which the heads of state made it clear that they intend to step up the pace of negotiations, and officials from both countries rated the settlement process.
He said that Aliyev and Sargsyan had called on the OSCE to take additional measures to strengthen the ceasefire and the establishment of trust, so that the atmosphere of the negotiations could improve. According to Kasprzyk, one such measure is the development of humanitarian contacts between representatives of academia and public intellectuals of the two countries. In addition, a mechanism to investigate possible incidents on the front line is under development.
