SITUATION AT NAGORNO-KARABAKH BORDER STABILIZES – ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 5, 2008
Russia

The situation at the contact line between the Nagorno-Karabakh and
Azeri armed forces has stabilized, said Armenian President Robert
Kocharian.

"There was an attack on a stronghold, and it was captured. A response
came immediately, and the status quo was restored," Kocharian said
at a press conference in Yerevan on Wednesday.

The conflicting sides reached a ceasefire agreement, Kocharian said.

He praised the role of OSCE chairman-in-office’s representative for
Nagorno-Karabakh Andrzej Kasprzyk in settling the incident.

"We are capable of settling this incident," Kocharian said.

The Armenian president suggested that Azerbaijan might have thought
that Armenia lost its focus on Nagorno-Karabakh or that "some major
units were withdrawn from Nagorno-Karabakh to maintain order in
Yerevan."

"I don’t think that it would have been politically correct to take
advantage of such a situation," he said.