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    STEPANAKERT WANTS FULL PARTICIPATION IN TALKS

    Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
    with their respective foreign ministers during Tuesday's meeting
    in Vienna

    STEPANAKERT-One day after a meeting between presidents Serzh Sarkisian
    and Ilham Aliyev in Vienna, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign
    Ministry issued a statement in which it emphasized the importance of
    including Karabakh in the negotiation process, reported the respective
    press offices.

    "The resumption of high level meetings between the Presidents of
    Armenia and Azerbaijan after a long break is important from the
    perspective of the intensification of the peaceful settlement process
    of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Karabakh and maintaining peace
    and stability in the region," said the statement.

    "We believe that the meeting proves that there is no alternative to
    the peaceful settlement and serves to ensure its irreversibility,"
    added the statement.

    "At the same time, we consider it necessary to note that real
    progress in the settlement process could only be reached by taking
    into consideration the existing realities and with the restoration
    of full-format negotiations with direct and immediate participation
    of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in all its stages," said the ministry.

    Speaking to students on the eve of the summit, Nagorno-Karabakh
    Republic President Bako Sahakian emphasized that he has expressed to
    the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen his trepidations about the so-called
    Madrid Principles, on which the negotiations are based.

    "We have always had reservation regarding the Madrid Principles,
    and we have said this on many occasions," said Sahakian, signaling
    that official Stepanakert is anticipating new approaches from the
    mediators, without undermining the role of the Minsk Group co-chairmen.

    Sahakian also told student about certain agreements reached with the
    co-chairmen in 2007, among them an understanding that any meeting
    taking place between the co-chairmen and Karabakh authorities must
    take place in Stepanakert.

    "In 2007 I told the Co-Chairs I refuse to meet with them in Yerevan.

    They respect my request and continue to visit Artsakh themselves,"
    explained Sahakian.

    http://asbarez.com/116448/stepanakert-wants-full-participation-in-talks/

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