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    RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SEEKS FINAL DOCUMENT ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH

    news.am
    Nov 30 2010
    Armenia

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants a comprehensive document,
    "Basic settlement principles", to be drafted for Nagorno-Karabakh,
    RF Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with Voice
    of Russia.

    "Russia is assisting the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process as one of
    the three OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, as well as as a nation having
    especially friendly relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is personally dealing with the
    issue. He has held seven or eight meetings with the Armenian and
    Azerbaijani Presidents, making a most serious attempt to go deep into
    the still existing disagreements and resolve them," Lavrov said.

    The Russian President's aim is the drafting the first-ever joint
    comprehensive document "Basic settlement principles" that would lay
    the foundations for preparation of a peaceful agreement as a final
    legally binding document. The sides reached an agreement on most of
    the principles, but some serious problems remain unsettled.

    "We are working in close contact with the American and French Co-Chairs
    of the OSCE Minsk Group. On the threshold of the Astana Summit they
    held meetings with the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.

    They were instructed to do their best to prepare a statement before
    the Astana Summit that might be signed by Baku, Yerevan and the
    co-chairs. I hope for success. We have lately observed relative
    lull along the contact line. However, I cannot yet say that a real
    breakthrough can be made in the settlement process itself at the
    Astana Summit. This is very hard work. It requires the reconciliation
    of sides holding diametrically opposite views. This work is not to
    be in haste. If the Astana Summit facilitates progress, it will be
    a serious achievement," Lavrov said.




    From: A. Papazian
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