Too early to talk about mutual understanding on Karabakh – leader

Too early to talk about mutual understanding on Karabakh – leader

Mediamax news agency
14 Jul 05

YEREVAN

The president of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic (NKR), Arkadiy
Gukasyan, thinks that it is too early to speak about fundamental
mutual understanding between the parties to the conflict on issues
that are on the agenda of the negotiating process.

Gukasyan said this at a meeting with the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk
Group in Stepanakert on 13 July, the NKR presidential press service
told Mediamax new agency today. At the same time, the NKR president
noted that “expectations of progress are nevertheless great”.

The mediators briefed the NKR president on details of meetings between
the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents and foreign ministers and on
the approaches of the mediating countries to prospects for tangible
progress in the peace process.

The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group said that there is a new
opportunity in the process of settling the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict. At the same time, they noted that the talk was not about any
new proposals submitted to the parties to the conflict.