New Times Party leader doesn’t expect progress in Karabakh talks

PanARMENIAN.Net - New Times Party leader Aram Karapetyan doesn’t expect any progress in Nagorno Karabakh talks in the near future.

“The resolution is being hampered by contradicting positions of the conflicting sides the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries will try to bring closer in June,” he said when commenting on the joint statement adopted by Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit in the French resort of Deauville.

However, he welcomed the call for peace aimed to curb Azerbaijan’s warlike policy as a positive step.

Member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia Rafik Petrosyan, for his part, agreed that the international community condemns the counties threatening use of force as a means of conflict resolution.

“We...are convinced that it is time for the sides in the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh to take a decisive step toward a peaceful resolution (of the conflict)," said a joint statement by Presidents of Russia, France and U.S. "We firmly call on the leaders of the sides to prepare their people for peace, not war," the statement said. "We call on the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to demonstrate political will and finalize...the basic principles (of a peace agreement) during the forthcoming summit in June."