ITAR-TASS, Russia
Nov 2 2008

Moscow, Baku, Yerevan sign Karabakh settlement declaration

02.11.2008, 17.28

MAIN DORF CASTLE (Moscow region), November 2 (Itar-Tass) — The
presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a declaration on
peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict in Moscow on Sunday.

The declaration presents legally binding international guarantees to
the Karabakh settlement process.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev read out the document in the
presence of Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan.

`The presidents aim to improve the situation in the South Caucasus and
confirm the importance of OSCE mediation and the need to support the
peace settlement process with legally binding international
guarantees,’ the declaration runs.

The presidents said they would continue to coordinate ways of
political settlement and ordered their foreign ministers to step up
the negotiations.