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    Armenpress

    OSKANIAN SAYS NO IMPASSE IN KARABAKH TALKS

    YEREVAN, DECEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS: Foreign minister
    Vartan Oskanian brushed aside today speculations that
    the talks over the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict were at an impasse, describing the November
    28 meeting of Armenian and Russian presidents in
    Belarus as 'positive and constructive."
    Oskanian said the presidents, who met on the
    sidelines of a CIS summit, centered on those issues
    which are not yet solved. 'Armenia would like the
    presidents to reach a complete agreement on these
    issues, but regretfully this is not the case yet and
    there are disagreements both on basic principles and
    details," Oskanian said.
    He said the presidents will soon give clear
    instructions and guidelines to their foreign ministers
    to go on with the talks. Oskanian said there is a real
    chance to break the impasse as the 2.5 page document
    on the table is a rationale document which may offer a
    fresh window of opportunity to resolve the conflict in
    2007.
    Oskanian then reiterated Armenia's fundamental
    position that the dispute must be settled only on the
    basis of the principle of self-determination saying a
    referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh could eliminate the
    conflict between this and the other principle of
    territorial integrity, which Azerbaijan insists must
    be respected.
    He also commented on Azerbaijani president Ilham
    Aliyev's remarks that the sides approached the final
    stage of negotiations. "It is hard to say whether we
    have indeed reached this point as there are still many
    stumbling blocks, but if Mr. Aliyev thinks so then
    Azerbaijan must agree to injecting the authorities of
    Nagorno-Karabakh into the talks as the conflict cannot
    be resolved without Karabakh participation in the
    final stage," he said.
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