NKR PRESIDENT: KARABAKH CONFLICT CAN’T BE SETTLED WITHOUT NAGORNO KARABAKH PARTICIPATION

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 6 2005

YEREVAN, September 6. /ARKA/. Karabakh conflict can’t be settled
without Nagorno Karabakh participation, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
President Arkady Ghukasyan said at a press conference held after
his meeting with the OSCE Chairman Dimitrij Rupel Monday night in
Yerevan. Ghukasyan said the OSCE Chairman meeting with NKR President
shows that the republic is a part of the OSCE Minsk Group’s format.
He pointed out that Azerbaijan started speaking about NKR status
and said he viewed that as a sign of progress in Karabakh conflict
settlement process, as never before Azerbaijan has taken this into
consideration. “However, it is still difficult to gauge the progress,
because so many problems remain unsolved”, NKR President said. In
his words, solving his internal state problems, President Aliev is
hampering Karabkh conflict settlement process and is becoming the
hostage of its own statements. M.V. -0–