ARMENIA ASSESSES KAZAKHSTAN’S EFFORTS TO SUPPORT NAGORNO-KARABAKH SETTLEMENT PROCESS AS POSITIVE: MFA

Panorama.am
13:51 28/04/2010

Politics

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat
Saudabayev had a phone conversation with his Armenian counterpart
Edward Nalbandian, Armenian MFA information department told Panorama.am
confirming the information spread by Kazakhstan’s media.

According to latter, Saudabayev also had a telconversation with
Azerbaijan’s FM Elmar Mammadyarov.

The source said, the issue over Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan
Nazarbayev’s possible participation in Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
process was discussed.

The head of the Armenian MFA information department Tigran Balayan
reported no further details over the issue but only recalled Minister
Nalbandian’s statement on the Armenian party’s positive appraisal of
Kazakhstan’s willingness and efforts to support the Minsk process,
Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the sides over Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

"As a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),
Kazakhstan is our ally as well," Minister Nalbandian had said earlier.