ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Monday


Minsk mediators and Armenian leadership discussed situation around
Karabakh settlement

Yerevan June 12

Mariana Mkrtchyan. On June 10, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
received the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov (Russia),
Richard Hoagland (USA), Stefan Visconti (France) and Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

As the presidential pres service told ArmInfo, the interlocutors
discussed issues related to the process of peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh problem. The situation was on the line of contact between the
Karabakh-Azerbaijani troops and the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border,
including incidents that took place recently on the front line were
discussed. Participants of the meeting noted the importance of loyalty
to obligations towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the
negotiation process, as well as the implementation of the reached
agreements at the highest level.

On the same day, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met with
the mediators, who drew the attention of the co-chairs to the fact
that Azerbaijan not only failed to fulfill the agreements reached in
Moscow between the foreign ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia
in April with the participation of the mediators regarding the agreed
identical text that media published from both Armenian and Russian
sides, but also issued another absurd comment that allegedly during a
meeting in Moscow, the ministers noted not the importance of
implementation of agreements but discussed the agenda of the summit
talks.

According to the Armenian Minister, despite the fact that the
mediators' statement of May 18 - is not the first address, Azerbaijan
continues to ignore calls of intermediaries. According to Nalbandian,
the situation is coming when the countries co-chairs, as mediators,
must not only make statements, but also resort to appropriate concrete
actions in order to curb the destructive and provocative policy of
Azerbaijan.