U.S.: KARABAKH CONFLICT PARTIES CLOSE TO SETTLEMENT AS NEVER

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.05.2006 14:19 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza stated that “the parties to the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict are as close to the settlement as never”. In
his words, the U.S. considers the next several months to be a real
“window of possibilities”. Matthew Bryza also remarked that the
Armenian and Azerbaijani governments should demonstrate political
courage to overcome the discrepancies.

According to another U.S. State Department representative David
E. Appleton, progress can be proved by the fact that Baku requested
the U.N. Refugee Agency to develop a program for the return of refugees
after the signing of a peaceful agreement, reported RFE/RL.