Armenian President has meetings in Kazan

PanARMENIAN.Net - President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan met with co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement and personal representative of chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk on June 25 in Kazan.

As the press office of the Armenian President says, Sargsyan together with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev watched the horse races for the President’s prize at Kazan International Hippodrome on June 24 evening.

The summit between Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in Kazan on June 24 completed without an agreement on basic principles of Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. “The countries’ leaders registered mutual understanding on a range of problems, the resolution of which boosts creation of conditions for approving main principles. The meeting participants considered the course of works carried out with the aim of coordination of the project with basic principles,” according to the statement. The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed gratitude to the Russian, French and U.S. leaders, the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs, for ‘their constant attention to Nagorno-Karabakh problem’ and highly praised personal efforts of the Russian President in support of agreements.

Later on Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbanian noted that the June 24 meeting was not a breakthrough, as Azerbaijan proved unready to accept the final version of the basic principles suggested by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs. Instead, the Azerbaijani leader attempted to impose 10 new proposals, thus precluding the possibility of any agreement on the issue,” he added.