Public Radio, Armenia
Nov 23 2006

Matthew Bryza: There is certain progress in the Karabakh conflict
settlement
23.11.2006 13:54

The US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza declared that
Armenia and Azerbaijan have achieved certain success in the
`perception of the interconnection of returning the so-called
`occupied territories’ and the issue of status.’
The American mediator said this during the meeting with journalists
in Vienna on November 16, Mediamax agency reports.
`There is progress. When I was in Vienna in June, the Co-Chairs
declared that we intend to take a break and wait for the reaction of
the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the main
principles suggested by the mediators. We told the Presidents: you
can improve these principles or decline these, but we do not want you
to blame the mediators for lack of progress.’
`During the recent months Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan had
three meetings. Since there was acceleration of the process of
improvement of the main principles we proposed, we suggested to
organize the meeting of the Presidents, which will be most probably
held November 28 in the framework of the CIS summit in Minsk,’ said
Matthew Bryza.