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Bako Sahakian: we hope Karabakh’s stance will be taken into account
21.09.2007 16:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Nagorno Karabakh should participate in peaceful
negotiations as full-right party, NKR President Bako Sahakian said. He
described the meeting with the OSCE MG Co-chairs as
positive. `Meetings of the kind will contribute to the OSCE MG
mandate, specifically to Karabakh’s joining the talks. Nagorno
Karabakh has its stand on the settlement and we are hopeful it will be
taken into account,’ Mr Sahakian underscored adding that Armenia is
the major guarantor of peace in the conflict zone.

NKR representatives took part in the talks until 1996. The delegation
was debarred at Azerbaijan’s urgent request to engage the so-called
Azeri community of NKR led by Nizami Bakhmanov in negotiations.
Then-president Levon Ter-Pertosyan’s `vague’ position on the issue was
another reason for NKR’s exclusion from the process. In 1998 Levon
Ter-Pertosyan handed in resignation.