Interfax, Russia
March 2 2010

Baku resents Karabakh settlement – Armenian foreign minister

YEREVAN March 2

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has claimed Baku resents
Karabakh settlement.

"If a party in the conflict does not want to fulfill the European
Union’s proposal for pulling out snipers from the frontline, it
resents settlement," Nalbandian said at a joint news conference with
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos in Yerevan on Tuesday.

"The EU made a statement on Nagorno-Karabakh in 2008 with the
participation of 56 foreign ministers, urging the conflicting parties
to strengthen the ceasefire regime and pull out snipers from the
frontline.

But the problem remains on paper to this day. Why did Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh agree, and Azerbaijan didn’t? Azerbaijan keeps making
bellicose statements almost each day," he said.

Nalbandian confirmed that Armenia had made its proposals to update the
Madrid principles of settling the conflict.

"It is a working process in which the sides are making their
proposals. It will continue until the sides draw their positions near
and settle disagreements," he said.