{"id":84221,"date":"2011-04-11T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=84221"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:16:19","slug":"you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-you-cant-make-him-drink-sean-farren-on-osce-minsk-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/11\/you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-you-cant-make-him-drink-sean-farren-on-osce-minsk-group.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can&#8217;t Make Him Drink&#8217;: Sean Farren on OSCE Minsk Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh can submit proposals to the parties but the Co-Chairs are not omnipotent, said Northern Irish politician Sean Farren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a saying, &#8216;You can lead [a horse] to water, but you can&#8217;t make him drink.&#8217; Mediators can do a lot, but they can&#8217;t impose reconciliation on the parties,&#8221; he said, reports Aze.az.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mediation expert, as a prerequisite for reconciliation between the two peoples, contacts in various fields should be established.<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion, playing a role in the dialogue between the conflicting parties can be community organizations and NGOs, which are &#8220;essential for achieving a political consensus.&#8221; However, Farren said, ultimately decisions are made by the countries&#8217; leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that from Apr. 11\u201312, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs will hold talks in Armenia. During the visit, the Co-Chairs will meet with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh can submit proposals to the parties but the Co-Chairs are not omnipotent, said Northern Irish&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10665,11793,13901,11083,12032,24599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}