ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: MEETING IN GENEVA IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CONSIDERED PROGRESS
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 21 2007
On 21 March in Yerevan, the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Vardan
Oskanyan, expressed his regret that the Armenia and Azerbaijan are
not very close to signing the document to confirm the principles of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, Mediamax reports.
During his speech at the conference, Oskanyan said that many
contradictions remain and the final meeting in Geneva cannot be
considered as progress. The Armenian Foreign Minister believes that
the parties will continue consultations to organize a meeting of the
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia after the parliamentary elections
in Armenia.
Oskanyan voiced that Armenia is prepared to continue negotiations
on the basis of the document that is on the negotiations table at
present. According to him, in 1996 it was only possible to hope
that the document would be discussed, which aims at recognizing the
self-appointment rights of Nagorno-Karabakh people through conducting
a referendum.