RA FM MARKED PROGRESS IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
Pan Armenian News
20.05.2005 08:32
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A new field of negotiations has opened for Armenia
and Azerbaijan and now we have something to say and do, Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in his interview with
the Public Television of Armenia. In his words, the Armenian and
Azerbaijani Presidents pointed out to the necessity of talks to be
held by the FMs, though before the Warsaw meeting Vartan Oskanian said
that the agenda of the FMs has been already exhausted. Presently the
Armenian Minister notes that such necessity has emerged. “The progress
achieved during the Aliyev-Kocharian meeting is included in the circle
our principal approaches”, he said stressing that with these words
he tried to response to the statement by Elmar Mamedyarov regarding
“Armenia’s readiness to return seven Azeri regions. In his words he
said it to dispel the idea that the progress refers to the return of
territories. As the Minister noted, one of the fundamental positions
of the Karabakh conflict settlement is the inadmissibility of the
status of an enclave for Karabakh. According the Armenian FM, the issue
consists of 4 principal elements, these being the status, territories,
refugees and security. “We are holding negotiations on each of these
items. On some of them community of positions can be observed, the
others present serious discrepancies”, Vartan Oskanian said.