April 15, 2005 - 09:27 AMT
AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA FAR FROM SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH PROBLEM, AZERI FORMER FM CONSIDERS
Azerbaijan and Armenia are far from the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, as the Armenian FM considered it premature to speak about package and stepwise settlement of the conflict, ex-Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, to date independent political scientist Tofik Zulfugarov said when commenting on the statement by Vardan Oskanian that the present stage of negotiations does not allow a package variant of settlement, Trend news agency reports. "Proceeding from the words of the Armenian FM it becomes clear that only general parameters of the settlement are discussed at the negotiations, while concrete definitions are absent", Tofik Zulfugarov stressed. In other words, in the opinion of the former Azeri FM, Vardan Oskanian gave to understand that the negotiations have not reached the stage of concrete definitions of the variants of the problem solution.