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ARMENIAN, U.S. OFFICIALS DISCUSS KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
August 29, 2006 Tuesday 11:45 AM MSK
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian met with U.S. OSCE Minsk
Group Co-Chairman Matthew Bryza in Bled, Slovenia, on Monday to
discuss the ongoing stage of talks on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict and their prospects, an Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman
told Interfax.
The spokesman, however, declined to disclose the details of the
meeting.
Speaking at the Caspian Prospects 2008 international conference in
Slovenia, Oskanian said that "militaristic statements by the Azeri side
regarding the possibility of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh problem
in a military way are obstructing the settlement process today."
"Today the Karabakh negotiations have reached their critical point.
And the international community should do everything possible to
persuade Azerbaijan to begin thinking realistically again and to
seriously discuss the principles that are presently on the negotiating
table," the Armenian minister said.
The Armenian authorities insisted earlier that the international
brokers had drafted a document outlining the fundamental principles
of the peace process in the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave in
Azerbaijan. They said that they had already approved the document,
calling on the Azeri authorities to do the same.
However, the Azeri government said that there was no major agreement
on the Karabakh settlement process.
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
August 29, 2006 Tuesday 11:45 AM MSK
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian met with U.S. OSCE Minsk
Group Co-Chairman Matthew Bryza in Bled, Slovenia, on Monday to
discuss the ongoing stage of talks on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict and their prospects, an Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman
told Interfax.
The spokesman, however, declined to disclose the details of the
meeting.
Speaking at the Caspian Prospects 2008 international conference in
Slovenia, Oskanian said that "militaristic statements by the Azeri side
regarding the possibility of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh problem
in a military way are obstructing the settlement process today."
"Today the Karabakh negotiations have reached their critical point.
And the international community should do everything possible to
persuade Azerbaijan to begin thinking realistically again and to
seriously discuss the principles that are presently on the negotiating
table," the Armenian minister said.
The Armenian authorities insisted earlier that the international
brokers had drafted a document outlining the fundamental principles
of the peace process in the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave in
Azerbaijan. They said that they had already approved the document,
calling on the Azeri authorities to do the same.
However, the Azeri government said that there was no major agreement
on the Karabakh settlement process.