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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SEEKS FINAL DOCUMENT ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
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Nov 30 2010
Armenia
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants a comprehensive document,
"Basic settlement principles", to be drafted for Nagorno-Karabakh,
RF Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with Voice
of Russia.
"Russia is assisting the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process as one of
the three OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, as well as as a nation having
especially friendly relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is personally dealing with the
issue. He has held seven or eight meetings with the Armenian and
Azerbaijani Presidents, making a most serious attempt to go deep into
the still existing disagreements and resolve them," Lavrov said.
The Russian President's aim is the drafting the first-ever joint
comprehensive document "Basic settlement principles" that would lay
the foundations for preparation of a peaceful agreement as a final
legally binding document. The sides reached an agreement on most of
the principles, but some serious problems remain unsettled.
"We are working in close contact with the American and French Co-Chairs
of the OSCE Minsk Group. On the threshold of the Astana Summit they
held meetings with the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.
They were instructed to do their best to prepare a statement before
the Astana Summit that might be signed by Baku, Yerevan and the
co-chairs. I hope for success. We have lately observed relative
lull along the contact line. However, I cannot yet say that a real
breakthrough can be made in the settlement process itself at the
Astana Summit. This is very hard work. It requires the reconciliation
of sides holding diametrically opposite views. This work is not to
be in haste. If the Astana Summit facilitates progress, it will be
a serious achievement," Lavrov said.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
Nov 30 2010
Armenia
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants a comprehensive document,
"Basic settlement principles", to be drafted for Nagorno-Karabakh,
RF Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with Voice
of Russia.
"Russia is assisting the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process as one of
the three OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, as well as as a nation having
especially friendly relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is personally dealing with the
issue. He has held seven or eight meetings with the Armenian and
Azerbaijani Presidents, making a most serious attempt to go deep into
the still existing disagreements and resolve them," Lavrov said.
The Russian President's aim is the drafting the first-ever joint
comprehensive document "Basic settlement principles" that would lay
the foundations for preparation of a peaceful agreement as a final
legally binding document. The sides reached an agreement on most of
the principles, but some serious problems remain unsettled.
"We are working in close contact with the American and French Co-Chairs
of the OSCE Minsk Group. On the threshold of the Astana Summit they
held meetings with the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.
They were instructed to do their best to prepare a statement before
the Astana Summit that might be signed by Baku, Yerevan and the
co-chairs. I hope for success. We have lately observed relative
lull along the contact line. However, I cannot yet say that a real
breakthrough can be made in the settlement process itself at the
Astana Summit. This is very hard work. It requires the reconciliation
of sides holding diametrically opposite views. This work is not to
be in haste. If the Astana Summit facilitates progress, it will be
a serious achievement," Lavrov said.
From: A. Papazian