Bernard Fassier: "Azerbaijan also suffered from the conflict in Georgia"

"As a former ambassador to Georgia and a person, who has long been working for averting the events, which occurred there, I regret about the events", said OSCE Minsk Group co-chair of France Bernard Fassier in Khankendi, assessing the current situation in the South Caucasus region.

"Yet this is a fact and we should analyze it. This fact proves that we, the co-chairs, and our countries were right stating for already more than 3 years that there is no other way out except for the peaceful resolution and that a new war is a suicide for everyone", said the French co-chair.

He noted that all the regional countries suffered from several days of military actions.

"Armenia found it hard to continue supplies and transit via Georgia. Azerbaijan also suffered, realizing the difficulty of using oil or gas pipelines during war.

That proves the need for the soonest and fastest concentration of all efforts to attain peaceful solution", concluded Bernard Fassier.

He met with head of Karabakh separatists Bako Saakyan. The meeting lasted for two hours. After the talk, Bernard Fassier gave a briefing for local and accredited journalists.

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