RA President: Medvedev addresses his vision on Karabakh settlement to parties

RA President: Medvedev addresses his vision on Karabakh settlement to parties

PanARMENIAN.Net - “In Kazan, we really could make a breakthrough in Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, but, regretfully, it did not happen,” Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said.

He reminded that in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, before the summit, he had stated that there may be a breakthrough in Kazan, if Azerbaijan does not make new claims.

“Regretfully, in Kazan official Baku showed the same conduct as during the last year and a half. Azerbaijan carried in about 10 new changes to the existing document. All of us know that any alternation in the document will require changes in other points and sub-points,” The Armenian leader said commenting on the Kazan meeting and presenting his view on future of the process.

He reminded that this scenario has repeated at least 4 times within the last 15 months. He thinks that this time the chance was omitted, however, according to the President, “this does not mean the end of negotiations, but it means that we have lost a period before a new meeting.” “The Russian President and Minsk Group co-chars asserted their intention to continue efforts in this issue, and the President of Russia told me yesterday on the phone that he had already addressed his vision in a written form. I think we shall receive it soon, and we’ll see how to move on,” Mr.Sargsyan said.

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.

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