ARMENIAN FM: KARABAKH SETTLEMENT MAY ONLY BE BASED ON COMPROMISES

Pan Armenian News
01.09.2005 05:10

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “In spite no progress is registered in the course of
the talks between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Kazan,
the Armenian party positively evaluates its outcomes,” Armenian FM
Vartan Oskanian stated. In his words, the conflict settlement may only
be based on compromises. The Armenian Minister emphasized that the
Kocharian-Aliyev meeting paves way for further talks at the level of
the FMs. “I suppose the Azeri party positively evaluates the outcomes
of the Kazan meeting as well,” the Armenian FM hoped. V. Oskanian
noted that his recurrent meeting with Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov is
possible soon, as well as a visit of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
to the conflict region. At the same time he did not specify the
date of those events. The Armenian FM did not link the negotiation
process with either the coming parliamentary election in Azerbaijan
or the referendum over the Constitution in Armenia. “These processes
will take place in our countries this year and the talks have not
produced an outcome that could be registered on paper. Thus, I do not
see a direct relation in the time in this case,” he noted. It should
be noted that the Kocharian-Aliyev meeting in Kazan was devoted to
the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. OSCE Minsk Group
Co-Chairs, representing Russia, US and France were present at the
meeting, reported IA Regnum.