`Prepared to Respond to Karabakh Encroachment Through Tough Measures,’
Says Sargsyan

Tert.am
15:45 – 28.11.09

Making a speech at today’s governing Republican Party of Armenia
convention, RA President Serzh Sargsyan, among other issues, referred
to the process of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
Armenia-Turkey relations.

On both issues, the Armenian president reiterated his previously
announced position: noting that Armenia would like to settle the issue
of Nagorno-Karabakh through peaceful negotiations.

`Armenia is for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict through negotiations, though we will not allow any sort of
encroachment whatsoever on the matter and we are prepared to respond
to any such assault through the toughest measures,’ noted Sargsyan.

The president once again emphasized that settlement of the conflict is
an extremely complex process, and it might take years to reach a final
settlement.

`Though in conflict settlement’s refuge today, I am filled with hope
that we can reach a logical conclusion within a reasonable timeframe.
As with Turkey, so with Azerbaijan, we consider our national and state
interests to be above everything else, and we are going to be decisive
in our relations, in the issue of seeing this process through till the
end,’ said Sargsyan, adding that `gone are the times of people being
colonized, living on their own land.’

`We have firmly announced to the world, that the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict settlement must anchor man and Nagono-Karabakh people on the
collective will of the reflection of independence. Only in that case
can the solution be long-lasting, feasible and peaceful. The agreement
among all the parties of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must, in one
package, include the solutions of all the issues and those mechanisms,
inscribed by international requirements, which guarantee the
implementation of those solutions,’ concluded Sargsyan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress