ANNE DERSE: "THE NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT MUST BE SOLVED ON THE BASIS OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION PRINCIPLE"

APA
June 10 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Victoria Dementyeva – APA. "The US position on the solution
to Nagorno Karabakh conflict remains unchanged. The conflict must
be solved peacefully on the basis of territorial integrity and
self-determination principle", outgoing US ambassador Anne Derse told
journalists, APA reports. Speaking about the US Assistant Secretary
of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon’s statement in
Armenia, the diplomat said the underlined principles must be discussed
in balance. The ambassador reminded that Gordon was appointed recently
and would keep all regional issues, including the solution process of
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the focus of his attention. "Gordon
was appointed to this post two months ago. I consider he will learn
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict closer during his present visit to
the region".

Gordon said in Yerevan that any voting mechanism enable people to
express its opinion should be included in the solution process.