The return of the Republic of Artsakh to the negotiation table for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot lead it to a deadlock, Armenian foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters, commenting on the statement of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev that the change of negotiation format is unacceptable.
Prime Minister Pashinyan reaffirmed Armenia’s commitment to an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship and presented Armenia’s approaches and principled position on this issue.
During their meeting in Yerevan today President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili discussed issues relating to the settlement of regional conflicts.
This is the first visit of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the region over the past three years.
Any change in the negotiations format for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be acceptable for all sides, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Miroslav Lajčák, said in Yerevan, asked who should represent the people of Artsakh in the negotiations.
President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili has visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan to pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims.
The Armenian government will take consistent steps to ensure the involvement of Artsakh in the negotiation process for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement as the main party to the conflict, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said during the joint session of the Security Councils of Armenia and Artsakh in Stepanakert.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan says an important goal of the upcoming NK conflict resolution negotiations process must be the clarification of the 3 principles and 6 elements brought forward by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.
Allow me to welcome the joint session of the security councils of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh, which is an unprecedented event during the entire period of existence of our republics.
The President will not attend the session for technical reasons.
