Armenia to build on progress in Karabakh settlement, foreign minister says

Interfax news agency, Moscow
14 Jul 05

Yerevan, 14 July: The Armenian side intends to build on the progress
achieved in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, while at the
same time preserving its position, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan told Interfax news agency on 14 July.

“There is some progress in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict
and the sides’ task is to build on this progress,” the minister said.

“A positive breakthrough in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict
might be made unexpectedly, and we shall continue constructive talks
with the Azerbaijani side, while clearly understanding our principles
and positions,” Vardan Oskanyan noted.

[Passage omitted: speculations about possible meeting between the
Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers on 22 August]

Moreover, the Armenian foreign minister stressed that he has
information that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs from Russia, France
and the USA are not planning to submit to the sides for signing any
document on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict “either in Kazan,
during the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents’ meeting on 26 August,
or after it”.

[Passage omitted: the personal representative of the OSCE
chairman-in-office on the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Andrzej Kasprzyk,
has said the border tension has eased]