November 23, 2004 - 19:46 AMT
CONTINUATION OF KARABAKH TALKS DEPENDS ON WHETHER UN GA WILL ADOPT AZERI RESOLUTION DRAFT
"If the General Assembly session adopts the draft resolution, introduced by the Azeri party, the negotiation process "will decease" and Azerbaijan will have to hold talks with the Nagorno Karabakh legally elected authorities," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian stated today. In case the resolution, based on the compromise option, is passed, Armenia is ready to continue the talks, he added. It should be reminded that initiated by Azerbaijan the UN General Assembly is to discuss the question of the territories of the security belt around Nagorno Karabakh today. The control of those territories today is the only actual guarantee of security of the Nagorno Karabakh Armenians and of prevention of resumption of hostilities.