The sides are not far away from a peace deal. Yet they need to take a few last difficult steps to secure a compromise, Sabina Freizer, the Project Director of the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Caucasus, stated when commenting on the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to the South Caucasus. “It remains to be seen whether they can do this in 2006,” noted Freizer stressing that otherwise the last historic chance to resolve the conflict peacefully may be lost. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ last visit to the South Caucasus seem to have succeeded in maintaining momentum in the negotiations process and in laying the ground work for meetings between the Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in January 2006. The hope is that a meeting between the President of Azerbaijan and the President of Armenia will be organized soon thereafter. As the Presidents have not met since August 2005 it is essential that they do so if we are to expect real progress in the negotiations,” the ICG Project Director underlined.
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