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No Positive Shifts in Karabakh Settlement Expected in 2007-2008
15.09.2006 13:13 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The current situation in the Nagorno Karabakh
settlement is a stalemate one owing to illegal territorial claims of
Azerbaijan, elimination of the most interested party – Artsakh itself,
and excessive stupidity and historical and legal ignorance of all
kinds of mediators, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Vladimir Stupishin
told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, owing to the same
reason it is hard to expect positive shifts in 2007 and 2008.

`When the moment comes for NKR representatives to return to talks as
full participants, making forecasts is hard owing to aforementioned
factors. As for the military solution of the issue, Baku does not urge
to use of force, but threatens Armenia with war. It is inadmissible
position and it looks like bluff,’ he underscored.

The Russian diplomat believes that sustaining status-quo is optimal at
present and talks are always better than hostilities.