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No meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents expected any time soon

28.10.2016, 15:37
Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents will not meet any time soon, Armenian parliament deputy speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said.

No meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents expected any time soon
YEREVAN, October 28. /ARKA/. Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents will not meet any time soon, Armenian parliament deputy speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said.

"No meeting of the presidents is envisaged in the coming weeks. Will they meet later? Let us wait and see," - he told reporters on Thursday after a meeting of the executive body of the governing Republican Party of Armenia.

Sharmazanov said that the Armenian side’s position is a clear and consistent - Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements must be implemented first. Azerbaijan ignores these agreements, resorting to sabotage operations, killing yesterday a Karabakh army serviceman on the contact line", - he added.

In this regard, Sharmazanov noted that the international community and, first of all, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, should make targeted statements and make Baku respect its commitments.

"Our clear position is that the Karabakh people should decide their fate themselves. Nagorno-Karabakh should be independent and can not be part of Azerbaijan in any status. We are not going to revise this position in the negotiation process. There is no return to the past, we have to go forward and to ensure international recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ", - he stressed.

In an interview with a Russian state television on October 18 Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev said Baku will never agree to grant Nagorno-Karabakh independence. “But there can be a compromise on local self-government in Nagorno-Karabakh in the future; if we reach agreement it could be an autonomous republic. We cannot make more concessions,” he said.

A spokesman for Armenian foreign ministry Tigran Babayan described Aliyev’s remarks as “self-deception”, while David Babayan, a spokesman for Nagorno-Karabakh’s president, said they were  “ludicrous”.

Sharmazanov left today for Karabakh, where he will hold a meeting with NKR President Bako Sahakyan, parliament speaker Ashot Ghulyan and Karabakh MPs. -0-