NAGORNO-KARABAKH STATUS IS PRIORITIZED
Support A1+!The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos arrived in Yerevan from Baku today. Mr Moratinos congratulated the Armenian nation and the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanyan with the 12 May Parliamentary elections. “The elections guarantee that the upcoming presidential elections will be conducted in the same way”. As to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office repeated what he had said in Baku:
“The OSCE stands ready to assist in conflict resolution. We encourage intensive mediation efforts by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs that had brought Azerbaijan and Armenia closer to a framework agreement on the basic principles for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”. Mr Miguel Angel Moratinos did not speak about the details of the principles. He only noted that he saw the responsibility of settling the dispute in a peaceful manner both in Armenia and in Baku.
The foreign journalists, accompanying the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, asked the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs about the vital issues of the settlement: “I should remind you that the conflict was initiated by Azerbaijan; thus, we should focus on the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. Nothing can be discussed without the enhancement of this issue in the document”, answered Vardan Oskanyan.
Mr Moratinos and Vardan Oskanyan expressed hope that Kocharyan-Aliev meeting due on 9 June in St. Petersburg would be conducted in the atmosphere of mutual compromise and an additional progress would be registered in that matter which would give grounds to solve the problem sooner. The RA Minister of Foreign Affairs answered to all questions of Armenian and Spanish journalists.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office is to meet the President of Nagorno-Karabakh after the meeting with the RA authorities in Yerevan.
