HARD TO REACH AGREEMENT BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

armradio.am
09.01.2008 15:15

RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan
that it will be hard to come to agreement on the Karabakh conflict
settlement before the presidential elections in Armenia on February
19. At the same time the Minister noted that such an agreement would be
"desirable" before the conduct of the elections.

Speaking about the development of the peace process in 2007,
Mr. Oskanian noted that the parties managed to achieve certain
progress although a number of principles remain non-agreed. Vartan
Oskanian declared about the willingness of the Armenian side to
continue the negotiations based on the progress achieved, "in the
basis of which lays the right of the people of Nagorno Karabakh to
self-determination."

The Foreign Minister expressed the opinion that the settlement process
will be active in 2008.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress