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ARMENIA SEES "NO NEW HOPES" FOR SETTLEMENT AFTER PARIS TALKS ON KARABAKH
http://www.armenianow.com/karabakh/41071/armenia_azerbaijan_minsk_group_paris_talks_serzh_s argsyan
KARABAKH | 14.11.12 | 11:04
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said last month's meeting of the
foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Paris, France, was
"far from new hopes" on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
In an interview with the French daily, Le Figaro, Sargsyan, who was
on an official visit to France at the beginning of this week, noted,
however, that it was agreed to continue talks in the current format
at the meeting.
"Baku refuses to accept the principles proposed by the international
mediators as a basis for holding talks supposing that they can
directly reach a peaceful agreement without agreeing on the basic
principles. But the peaceful agreement may be viable only if it is
based on clear principles acceptable for everybody," said Sargsyan.
After his talks with Sargsyan at the Elysee Palace on Monday French
President Francois Hollande, too, said that as a co-chair of the OSCE
Minsk Group France would continue to mediate the negotiations that
it saw as progressing on the basis of the so-called Madrid principles
submitted to the conflicting parties a few years ago.
Armenian-Azerbaijan peace talks ground to a halt earlier this year
after a series of deadly border skirmishes in June and especially the
controversial pardoning in Azerbaijan of Ramil Safarov, a convicted
killer of an Armenian serviceman who was handed over to Baku by
Hungary on August 31.
Safarov, an officer of the Azerbaijani army, hacked to death a sleeping
Armenian fellow student, Gurgen Margaryan, at a NATO-sponsored English
language course in Budapest in 2004. He was serving a life sentence
in a Hungarian prison before his controversial extradition.
In the interview this week the Armenian leader said that despite the
actions taken by Baku in what was later dubbed as the Safarov Affair
Armenia will keep doing its best to reach a peaceful settlement.
http://www.armenianow.com/karabakh/41071/armenia_azerbaijan_minsk_group_paris_talks_serzh_s argsyan
KARABAKH | 14.11.12 | 11:04
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said last month's meeting of the
foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Paris, France, was
"far from new hopes" on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
In an interview with the French daily, Le Figaro, Sargsyan, who was
on an official visit to France at the beginning of this week, noted,
however, that it was agreed to continue talks in the current format
at the meeting.
"Baku refuses to accept the principles proposed by the international
mediators as a basis for holding talks supposing that they can
directly reach a peaceful agreement without agreeing on the basic
principles. But the peaceful agreement may be viable only if it is
based on clear principles acceptable for everybody," said Sargsyan.
After his talks with Sargsyan at the Elysee Palace on Monday French
President Francois Hollande, too, said that as a co-chair of the OSCE
Minsk Group France would continue to mediate the negotiations that
it saw as progressing on the basis of the so-called Madrid principles
submitted to the conflicting parties a few years ago.
Armenian-Azerbaijan peace talks ground to a halt earlier this year
after a series of deadly border skirmishes in June and especially the
controversial pardoning in Azerbaijan of Ramil Safarov, a convicted
killer of an Armenian serviceman who was handed over to Baku by
Hungary on August 31.
Safarov, an officer of the Azerbaijani army, hacked to death a sleeping
Armenian fellow student, Gurgen Margaryan, at a NATO-sponsored English
language course in Budapest in 2004. He was serving a life sentence
in a Hungarian prison before his controversial extradition.
In the interview this week the Armenian leader said that despite the
actions taken by Baku in what was later dubbed as the Safarov Affair
Armenia will keep doing its best to reach a peaceful settlement.