§ Mr. David AtkinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made in establishing Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe monitors of the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute following the decision of the Budapest summit last November; what is the United Kingdom's contribution to it; and if he will make a statement. [20474]
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe Budapest summit of the OSCE in December 1994 decided that an agreement between the parties on the cessation of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would be a necessary precondition for the deployment of a multi-national peacekeeping operation. Although a ceasefire has now been in place for almost a year, no agreement has yet been reached. The OSCE Minsk group is actively engaged, with our full support, in efforts to promote an agreement.
427WWe have offered to send a team of signallers to a monitoring mission, if required. We are providing personnel for the high-level planning group which is working in Vienna on a possible peacekeeping operation.