Interfax, Russia
July 10 2009

Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal not far off – Medvedev:

ACQUILA July 10

L’ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed optimism on Friday
about chances for the settlement of the conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan over the latter’s Armenian- speaking enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

"I have some pretty good expectations about this. It is one of those
conflicts whose resolution process is in the most advanced phase,"
Medvedev told a news conference in L’Acquila, an Italian city that
hosted the G8 summit on July 8-10.

Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal not far off – Medvedev (Part 2)

ACQUILA July 10

L’ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed optimism on Friday
about chances for the settlement of the conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan over the latter’s Armenian- speaking enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

"I have some pretty good expectations about this. It is one of those
conflicts whose resolution process is in the most advanced phase,"
Medvedev told a news conference in L’Acquila, an Italian city that
hosted the G8 summit on July 8-10.

Medvedev said Armenia and Azerbaijan are in dialogue over the
conflict.

"In my view, they are resolvable points," he said in reference to the
points the two countries are arguing about. "It’s not something that
will take decades to solve. So I believe it’s possible to achieve a
result there."

Russia and its partners in the Minsk Group, an Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe body mediating in the conflict,
"will give all possible help in this," Medvedev said. "But we will
also act on our own because [the Armenian and Azeri presidents] are
coming to one of the presidential events very soon," he said.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress