“We’ll do our best to assist OSCE Minsk Group’s activities towards a peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict based on Madrid Principles. We offer the President of Armenia and Azerbaijan to meet in Astana during the current year. Strengthening co-operation with OSCE parliamentarians is an important component in tackling regional challenges such as protracted conflicts and the European arms control regime,” Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakh Foreign Minister, said during the meeting of CIS Foreign Ministers in Moscow. He mentioned that he had gotten introduced to the situation in the conflict zone on February 15-17 during his visit to South Caucasus. Let us recall that during this visit Saudabayev stated that the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev had offered Armenia and Azerbaijan his recommendations on the conflict resolution. Both of the sides have officially confirmed this. Although the details of Nazarbayev’s recommendations were not publicized the conversations of the resolution of the NKR in the framework of Nazarbayev’s recommendations were activated especially after Saudabayev’s visit to the region. Those were mostly demonstrated within the frames of Azerbaijan’s optimistic statements and Armenia’s tolerance. So it is not excluded that the “big document” of the NKR resolution may be singed in Astana. Only 9 months is left before the end of 2010.
