MADRID PROPOSALS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT NOT RE-CONSIDERED: ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

Trend News Agency
Dec 15 2008
Azerbaijan

Any changes or supplements have not been injected into the Madrid
proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group on settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, Edvard Nalbandyan, the Armenian Foreign Minister, said.

"Reports on changing or supplementing the Madrid principles, do not
reflect reality. Only additional proposals are included in discussion
process on different issues and aspects of the Madrid principle,
but not more. There are not any changes or supplements in the Madrid
proposals itself," the Minister said at a news conference on Dec. 15,
Novosti-Armenia reported.

Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group submitted basic principles of
peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to the Presidents
of Armenia and Azerbaijan for consideration in Nov. 2007. Co-chairs
regard the Madrid proposals as fair and balanced.

Reports, which say that allegedly the Armenian Foreign Minister has
received a document injecting changes into the Madrid proposals,
do not reflect reality, the Armenian Foreign Minister said.

The Foreign Ministry only has received a paper concerning the Madrid
proposals and it does not comprise changes of essence of proposals,
the Minister said. There are many similar papers in the negotiation
process, he added.

"If we divulge all papers, negotiations will not be important and they
will be held through papers. We continue negotiations on settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the base of the Madrid principles, as
it is stated in the Helsinki declaration of the OSCE Foreign Ministers
and statement of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs," Nalbandyan said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress