SARGSYAN TO REIGN AFTER NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT IS SETTLED

Interfax
April 8 2009
Russia

If the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is settled, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan will resign.The day when Azerbaijan recognizes the right of
the Nagorno- Karabakh people to self-determination and Nagorno-Karabakh
is declared either an independent country or joins Armenia will be
happiest day in my life. I will resign at once then, Sargsyan told
German sociologist Tilman Alert, the Armenian Public TV reports.

There is the possibility of resolving the conflict peacefully,
he said. I am sure of this, otherwise I would not have run for the
presidency, Sargsyan said.

Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
districts in a bloody conflict in the 1990’s. Around a million Azeri
nationals became refugees. The UN Security Council condemned the
occupation of the Azeri territories and demanded that Armenian troops
be withdrawn.

Today mediators in the settlement are the co-chairmen of the OSCE
Minsk Group from France, Russia and the United States.