SIDES IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT TALKS AGREE ON DOCUMENT’S PREAMBLE – RUSSIAN FM

ITAR-TASS
Jan 25 2010
Russia

Krasnaya Polyana, 25 January: The preamble of the document on the basic
principles of settlement of the problem of Nagornyy Karabakh is finding
a mutual understanding of the sides. As for the parts containing
the subject of disagreement, the sides will prepare their ideas and
wording for future rounds of talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov has said summing up the results of the trilateral meeting of
the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

"The sides considered the specific proposals submitted by co-chairmen
of the Minsk group," Lavrov said.

"There is a mutual understanding as to the preamble of the document,"
Lavrov said. "Everyone has recognized as useful the existence of the
document, because it makes it possible to hold a conversation not in
an abstract manner, but attached to concrete wording," he said.

"The main result today is the agreement on the fact that even though
there are parts that are not subject to the sides’ concord, the sides
will prepare their specific ideas and wording that will be incorporated
in the text," Lavrov said.

He refused to gives the details of the document or of its preamble.

"This is the subject of the sides’ talks," he said.

The talks of the presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan lasted
over two hours.