DARTMOUTH CONFERENCE IS ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO NAGORNO KARABAKH PROBLEM
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT

STEPANAKERT, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN. Though the Dartmouth conference
format can in no way replace the negotiations conducted under the
aegis of OSCE, nevertheless, it is able to have a positive impact on
the atmosphere formed around the conflict and to contribute to the
peaceful settlement of the conflict.

This was mentioned at the March 31 meeting of Karen Baburian, NKR
Security Council Secretary, with Co-chairmen of Dartmouth Conference
Working Group on Nagorno Karabakh Issue, Vitaly Naumkin, Russian
political scientist, representative of the Center for Strategic
Studies, and Harold Sanders, Chairman of the International Institute of
Continual Dialogue. Presenting the approaches of official Stepanakert
on settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh problem, NKR Security Council
Secretary appreciated the Dartmouth Conference efforts in the issue of
establishing a dialogue and mutual confidence between the neighbor
societies. In its turn, as K.Baburian mentioned, in case of the
consent of the other parties of the conflict, the Karabakh side is
ready the next day to sign under an agreement which will oblige the
sides to put an end to instigation of mutual hatred and to express
their consent to the peaceful settlement of the conflict. As Noyan
Tapan correspondent was informed from NKR President’s Press Service,
the interlocutors mutually confirmed the importance of the process
going on at the level of the societies of the conflict parties.