Astana meeting to help parties reach mutual understanding: Kazakh president

Participant states to the OSCE Summit to be held in Astana in December will reach mutually acceptable formulations even over most sensitive issues, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev finds.

"I would like to note that assisting to the resolution of protracted conflicts in the South Caucasus and Transdnestria has become a serious challenge for Kazakhstan's chairmanship [at the OSCE]. I am happy to state that there has been some progress over the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group. For the first time during the recent 5 years a group of international experts visited Nagorno Karabakh under the auspices of OSCE with an aim to assess the situation on the ground" the Kazakh leader said in an interview with Euronews.

Touching on the recent trilateral summit of the Armenian, Russian, and Azerbaijani leaders in Astrakhan, he said that they welcome October 27 joint declaration by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev and their commitment to the exchange of war prisoners and the return of dead bodies with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross.