ARMENIAN MINISTER RULES OUT CHANGES TO PRINCIPLES OF KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

Mediamax
Dec 15 2008
Armenia

Yerevan, 15 December: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Edvard
Nalbandyan stated in Yerevan today that "there are no amendments
to Madrid principles and all the statements on the opposite do not
correspond to the reality".

Mediamax reports that the Armenian foreign minister said this at
a joint news conference with OSCE Secretary-General Marc Perrin
de Brichambaut.

According to Nalbandyan, during the talks on Karabakh settlement,
separate technical proposals may be made, which should not be
considered as changes or amendments to the principles, proposed by
the mediators.

Edvard Nalbandyan and Marc Perrin de Brichambaut stated the importance
of the declaration on the settlement of Karabakh conflict, signed
in Helsinki by the Russian and French foreign ministers and the US
assistant secretary of state.

The OSCE secretary-general will meet with the president, the parliament
speaker, the Armenian prime minister, the Catholicos of All Armenians
and the heads of parliamentary factions of the National Assembly
during his visit to Yerevan.