NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT COULD BE CLOSE TO RESOLUTION, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS OSCE
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 18 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku / "Trend" / corr. A. Gasimova / The Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict could be close to a resolution and Armenia is committed to
working on the peace plan negotiated by the OSCE Minsk Group within
the conflict, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian informed the
OSCE Permanent Council.
"We could be close to a resolution. I have been a Minister for nine
years now and prior to that I was the chief negotiator on the Karabakh
issue. I have seen all the proposals that have been produced by the
mediators and I can assure you that we have never been as close as
this," Minister Oskanian said.
The Minister said he would travel from Vienna to Belgrade for talks
with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, and that he would "reaffirm
our commitment to every single principle that has been inscribed
in that document. We will never backtrack on our promises. We will
continue to reaffirm our position."