YURI MERZLYAKOV: CO-CHAIRS HOPE ON PROGRESS IN 4 MAIN PRINCIPLES FOR KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
ArmInfo
2009-05-11 11:19:00
Arminfo. ‘Co-chairs hope on progress in coordination of the problems
which still remain mismatched. These are the 4 main principles for
settlement. We have already reached mutual understanding on many of
them and we hope that breakthrough will happen in St.Petersbourg or
agreement of major part of the remaining problems’, – Russian co-chair
of the OSCE MG Yuriy Merzlyakov said in an interview with Ekho Moskvi.
When commenting on the Praque meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents on 7 May, he recalled that was the forth meeting of the two
presidents. He said, as presidents themselves assessed, the meeting
was constructive and made it possible to make closer positions on
the remaining mismatched basic principles for Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict settlement.
He also added Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents will probably meet
in St. Petersbourg at the beginning of June.
When commenting on normalizing of the Armenian-Turkish relations
Merzlyakov said it is in parallel developing with the process
of Karabakh conflict settlement. It is important the process of
the Karabakh conflict settlement not to become the hostage for
normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, he concluded.