The OSCE Minsk group Russian co-chair Nikolay Gribkov has informed “Turan” agency that the co-chairs can arrive in the region in February 2002. “We are thinking over the steps that would allow brightening up the talk process that has not made much progress recently”, has stated he. Nikolay Gribkov answered the question regarding the possibility of the applying of the model of Alan islands that this variant had been considered in the mid-90ies, but it had not been developed. According to him, there was a real chance to achieve the conflict settlement last year as the world community’s attention was focused on the Karabakh issue. After the terrorist acts in the US the focal center changed. The main means time are for the reconstruction of Afghanistan at the present, though under other circumstances, the same means, in the diplomat’s words, might be used for post-conflict rehabilitation in Nagorno-Karabakh. He thinks it is possible that after some time, Karabakh region might be forgotten against the background of the current processes in the world. Nikolay Gribkov answered the question if the Paris principles were really formulated. He said that “is the result of joint work of Armenian and Azerbaijani parts”. According to him, the population of the two countries was not ready to accept possible compromises.
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