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    Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
    Dec 1 2006

    ONLY SOLUTION TO NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT IS HOLDING OF REFERENDUM
    IN NKR, VARTAN OSKANIAN SAYS


    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN. "I consider the meeting between
    Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents held lately in Minsk within the
    framework of Nagorno Karabakh settlement as positive and subject: it
    passed in rather constructive atmosphere." RA Foreign Minister Vartan
    Oskanian declared this at the December 1 press conference.

    He said that the negotiations have come out of the deadlock: "We
    could not express such confidence about previous meetings."
    V.Oskanian said that soon the Presidents will give instructions to
    the Foreign Ministers of the two countries on continuing the
    negotiations and on issues to be discussed during them.

    V.Oskanian said that during the Minsk meeting the Presidents focused
    their attention on problems that remain unsolved. "Of course, we
    would like a complete agreement to exist between the Presidents over
    these issues, but this is not so. Though the meeting went on
    positively and some rapprochements were noticed, it will not reflect
    the reality rightly if we say that they came to an agreement around
    these issues," he said.

    In the Foreign Minister's words, the sides still have some
    disagreements on settlement principles and especially on details
    regarding the principles.

    V.Oskanian stressed that the Armenian side's position has not
    changed: the problem should be settled on the basis of Nagorno
    Karabakh people's right of self-determination. As regards two opposed
    principles - Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and NKR people's
    self-determination, in the Minister's words, these principles can be
    combined only by holding a referendum. By the way, the idea of
    referendum was included in the Minsk Group Co-chairs' proposals,
    around which negotiations proceed today. "We see a prospect in
    confronting these principles, i.e. in giving the Nagorno Karabakh
    people the opportunity to decide what it wants to choose,
    Azerbaijan's territorial integrity or its self-determination. This is
    the only solution and, fortunately, the elements of this solution
    have been already included in the document," V.Oskanian said.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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