NKR FOREIGN MINISTER: "ACHIEVEMENT OF SOLUTIONS IS POSSIBLE ONLY
WITH PARTICIPATION OF LEGALLY ELECTED AUTHORITIES OF THE NKR"

Lragir.am
18 July 06

Nagorno Karabakh Republic Foreign Minister Georgy Petrossian commented
upon the statements of IA REGNUM, made during the summit of the Great
Eight countries in Saint Petersburg.

"One may only welcome a statement of the Great Eight countries on
maintenance of the intermediary efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group and on
necessity of co-ordination of the core principles of the conflict’s
peaceful resolution. Nagorno Karabakh has always come out in favor
of peaceful resolution of the problem and is ready to exert every
effort to achieve the agreement on establishing long-term peace in
the region. Unfortunately, it is not everything that depends on the
mediators. Considering Azerbaijan’s extremely destructive position
and its unwillingness to be in any contact with Nagorno Karabakh
it is very difficult to find an acceptable and correct solution to
date. The President of the Russian Federation has fairly noted that
Russia is not going to impose any solutions on the parties to the
conflict and that the compromise must be reached by people.

Taking into account the Russian Federation’s readiness to become a
guarantor of the agreements’ fulfillment we remind once more that the
achievement of solutions directly concerning the future of our country
and our people is possible only with participation of representatives
of legally elected authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic,
the main and the most suffered party to the conflict".