EU TO PREVENT MILITARY SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT – HAVIER SOLANA

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Dec 11 2007
Azerbaijan

The European Union will not allow the situation with the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to aggravate the military settlement, the
European Union (EU) High Representative for Unified Foreign Policy and
Security Policy Havier Solana said at the meeting with the Armenian
Prime Minister Serj Sarkisian in Brussels on 10 December.

"During the meeting Solana said it is inadmissible to settle the
conflict in a military way and noted that EU would not allow the
situation to escalate to that," the Department for Public Relations and
Press at the Armenian Government said to Novosti-Armenia news agency.

In his turn, Sarkisian said that Armenia sees only a peaceful approach
to the settlement of the conflict. According to Sarkisian, there are
still great opportunities for a peaceful settlement of the conflict
and there is no alternative to that. With the support of the EU it is
possible to establish relationships with Turkey for the same purpose
Armenia suggests and establish diplomatic relations between the two
countries without any pre-conditions, Sarkisian said.