Haykakan Zhamanak , Armenia
June 5 2009

Karabakh accord to be signed in July

Is he ceding?

A meeting between [Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and [Azerbaijani
President Ilham] Aliyev took place in St Petersburg yesterday.
According to our sources, at the meeting Sargsyan gave verbal consent
to the option for the Nagornyy Karabakh settlement which was on the
negotiating table.

Our sources also say that agreement was reached to sign an agreement
on the Nagornyy Karabakh settlement during yet another meeting on the
Nagornyy Karabakh issue in Italy in early July – in which presidents
of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries – Obama, Medvedev and
Sarkozy – will take part. It is about returning liberated territories
[currently Armenian-controlled Azerbaijani territories around Nagornyy
Karabakh], return of Azerbaijani refugees to Nagornyy Karabakh, and
holding a referendum later.

Meanwhile, [former Armenian president and currently opposition leader]
Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced at the 1 June [opposition] rally :"Serzh
Sargsyan is not the president of the Republic of Armenia, he is a
regular occupier. No document signed by him has a legal force for us,
especially if this document concerns the cause of the settlement of
Nagornyy Karabakh issue."