President: Signing a settlement of NK not realistic in near future

[Zakarian Garnik]

Serzh Sargsyan: Signing of an agreement on settlement of the Karabakh
conflict not realistic in the near future

2009-10-03 13:19:00


ArmInfo. Signing of an agreement on settlement of the Karabakh conflict
is not realistic in the near future, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
said at the meeting with the Armenian communities of Europe in Paris.

As regards the concerns of come political forces about linking of the
Armenian-Turkish and Karabakh processes, the president said: "There is
an exact format of negotiations for settlement of the Karabakh
conflict. The initialed protocols bear no relation to the problem of
Artsakh. Evidently there is no slightest hint of Nagorny Karabakh." The
president said the stand of the Armenian party is clear: the issue of
the Karabakh conflict settlement is not and cannot be in the spectrum
of the Armenian-Turkish relations. "Moreover, the Karabakh process
requires hard and long work, which allows supposing that signing of an
agreement on settlement of this issue is not realistic for the near
future," the president said.