Nagorno Karabakh foreign ministry: "Solutions can be found only with
participation of legally elected NKR authorities"
Regnum, Russia
July 18 2006
"One may only welcome the statement of the Great Eight countries on
support of mediation efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group and on necessity
to coordinate basic principles of peaceful resolution of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict," stated Nagorno Karabakh Foreign Minister Georgy
Petrosyan, when commenting on statements made during the G8 summit
in St. Petersburg to REGNUM.
In his words, "Nagorno Karabakh has always advocated peaceful
resolution of the problem and is ready to spare no effort to come to
agreement over establishing long-term peace in the region.
Unfortunately, not everything depends on the mediators." "Considering
Azerbaijan’s extremely destructive position and its unwillingness to
be in any contact with Nagorno Karabakh it is very difficult to find
an acceptable and fair solution to date," the minister said.
According to him, the president of the Russian Federation has fairly
noted that Russia is not going to impose any solutions on the parties
to the conflict and that the compromise must be reached by people.
"Taking into account the Russian Federation’s readiness to become
a guarantor of fulfillment of the agreements, we remind once more
that the achievement of solutions, directly concerning the future of
our country and our people, is possible only with participation of
representatives of legally elected authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic, the main and the most suffered party to the conflict,"
Petrosyan said.