TRILATERAL DECLARATION SIGNIFIES NEW STAGE OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE SETTLEMENT: SARGSYAN

Trend News Agency
Nov 6 2008
Azerbaijan

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan believes the signing of the
trilateral declaration among him and the Azerbaijani and Russian
Presidents signifies the beginning of a new more intensive stage of
the peace settling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenia’s Serzh Sargsyan and
Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev signed a declaration at the end of their
meeting in Mein Dorf castle near Moscow on 2 November. Presidents of
Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan who in detail discussed current state
and prospective of the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by
political means, continuing direct dialogue between Azerbaijan and
Armenia through Russia, U.S. and France’s mediation as co-chairmen
of OSCE Minsk Group in a constructive atmosphere, declared that they
would contribute to normalizing the situation in the South Caucasus
and ensure establishment of stability and security in the region by
the settling the conflict by political means

"We see a peace and compromise settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, which must provide for realization of the people’s right for
self-determination, lying in the basis of settling of the relations
with our neighbour Azerbaijan," President said to the representatives
of the Armenian diaspora of Belgium.

According to Sargsyan, Armenia is ready to maintain the negotiations,
basing on the Madrid principles.