YURI MERZLYAKOV: THERE ARE SOME NUANCES THAT CANNOT BE SETTLED WITHOUT
NAGORNO KARABAKH
01.04.2005 01:46
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have already
worked out a number of components of the Karabakh conflict settlement,
OSCE MG Russian Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov stated, APA Azeri news agency
reports. According to him, these proposals have been considered during
the recent negotiations and there are no objections on the whole
though there are certain discrepancies between the positions taken by
the conflicting parties. `We are trying smooth these discrepancies and
maximally bring the positions together. The parties should reach
agreement on their own otherwise there will be no progress’, Y.
Merzlyakov considers. He also noted that at a certain state of the
negotiations the parties will have to resort to trilateral
format. `There are some nuances that cannot be settled with Nagorno
Karabakh’, he said. When touching upon the statement by Serge
Sargsian, who said that Armenia’s biggest concession is that she has
not recognized the independence of the NKR yet and that the consentto
the conduction of a referendum in Karabakh can become the major next
compromise, Yuri Merzlyakov said, `We are working with executive
powers of the conflicting parties and their statements are of interest
to us.’