Interfax News Agency, Russia
May 6 2008

Yerevan, Baku need to build confidence to continue Karabakh talks-
Armenian foreign minister

YEREVAN May 6

To continue talks on the Karabakh conflict resolution the parties to
the conflict must build confidence between them, Armenian Foreign
Minister Edvard Nalbandian said.

"Today the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict need to establish
mutual confidence and a constructive environment in order to continue
the talks," he said at the meeting with his French counterpart Bernard
Kouchner in Paris.

"It has to be reinstated that there is no alternative to a peaceful
resolution of the Karabakh conflict based on the talks," the Armenian
foreign minister also said.

Nalbandian said he hoped that at the meeting with Azeri Foreign
Minister Elmar Mamedyarov on May 6 the parties will continue the
constructive dialogue in order to find, with the help of OSCE
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group co-
chairmen, ways of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the
Armenian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson told Interfax on Tuesday.,

The OSCE Minsk Group consists of representatives from the United
States, Russia and France.