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VITALY NAUMKIN AND HAROLD SONDERS PRESENT NKR FOREIGN MINISTER BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DOCUMENT WORKED OUT BY DARTMOUTH CONFERENCE
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 03 2006
STEPANAKERT, APRIL 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Lately the
delegation of the Dartmouth Conference Russian-American Working Group
on Issues of Regional Conflicts headed by Co-chairmen Vitaly Naumkin
(Russia) and Harold Sonders (U.S.) that arrived to NKR within the
framework of the regional visit was received by NKR Foreign Minister
Georgi Petrosian. As Noyan Tapan was informed from NKR Foreign Ministry
Information and Analytical Department, the interlocutors discussed
the draft frame agreement on peace process prepared during 9 stages
of the dialogue of the representatives of the public of Azerbaijan,
Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh within the framework of the Dartmouth
Conference. At the meeting the Co-chairmen presented the basic
principles of the document worked out mentioning that it supposes
mutual concessions. In their opinion, the draft frame agreement
does not offer solutions, but is aimed at creating conditions for
establishing a stable dialogue between the conflict parties. NKR
Foreign Minister, positively estimating the efforts of the working
group aimed at looking for mutually accepted ways of conflict
settlement, mentioned the participation of the Nagorno Karabakh public
in the dialogue proceeding within the framework of the Dartmouth
Conference as positive. At the same time, Georgi Petrosian attached
importance to preservation of the current cease-fire regime, as well as
realization of moral responsibility by all mediators and interested
international structures and organizations for inadmissibility
of application of force or threat to apply force in the Karabakh
conflict zone, irrespective of their participation and assistance to
the negotiations process and presence or lack of an official mandate.
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 03 2006
STEPANAKERT, APRIL 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Lately the
delegation of the Dartmouth Conference Russian-American Working Group
on Issues of Regional Conflicts headed by Co-chairmen Vitaly Naumkin
(Russia) and Harold Sonders (U.S.) that arrived to NKR within the
framework of the regional visit was received by NKR Foreign Minister
Georgi Petrosian. As Noyan Tapan was informed from NKR Foreign Ministry
Information and Analytical Department, the interlocutors discussed
the draft frame agreement on peace process prepared during 9 stages
of the dialogue of the representatives of the public of Azerbaijan,
Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh within the framework of the Dartmouth
Conference. At the meeting the Co-chairmen presented the basic
principles of the document worked out mentioning that it supposes
mutual concessions. In their opinion, the draft frame agreement
does not offer solutions, but is aimed at creating conditions for
establishing a stable dialogue between the conflict parties. NKR
Foreign Minister, positively estimating the efforts of the working
group aimed at looking for mutually accepted ways of conflict
settlement, mentioned the participation of the Nagorno Karabakh public
in the dialogue proceeding within the framework of the Dartmouth
Conference as positive. At the same time, Georgi Petrosian attached
importance to preservation of the current cease-fire regime, as well as
realization of moral responsibility by all mediators and interested
international structures and organizations for inadmissibility
of application of force or threat to apply force in the Karabakh
conflict zone, irrespective of their participation and assistance to
the negotiations process and presence or lack of an official mandate.