NO NEED FOR CHANGING NK SETTLEMENT FORMAT

Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 19 2006

Yerevan, June 19. /ARKA/. There is no need for changing the format
of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, Chairman of the Foreign Relations
Commission, RA Parliament, Armen Rustamyan stated at his meeting with
members of the Commission for International Relations, Defense and
Security, Senate of Czechia.

"There is no need for a new format, because the OSCE Minsk Group
has been dealing with this issue since 1992, is well acquainted with
the problem and has made three valuable proposals for the last eight
years," Rustamyan said.

According to him, the reason for the lack of positive changes is
Azerbaijan’s constantly rejecting proposals and refuses to sign any
document contradicting its conception of solution to the problem.

According to Rustamyan, success in settlement of conflicts is only
possible through the development of regional cooperation, which is
seriously impeded by the policy of creating dividing lines in the
region being implemented by Turkey and Azerbaijan.