ARF Dashnaktsutyun does not exclude the possibility of signing an agreement on basic principles for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the current year, Kiro Manoyan, head of "Ay Dat" office told a press conference in Yerevan. "The agreement is unlikely to be signed during the upcoming meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow, but it can take place within a year. Signing of the document will be conditioned by Turkey's pressure, since Ankara continues to turn the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement into a precondition for normalizing the Armenian-Turkish relations, " he said.

According Manoyan, after signing an agreement on basic principles between Yerevan and Baku, it will take another few years to sing the agreement on the conflict settlement, which is contradicts to the interests of the Armenian side. "Either the parties must accept the entire package of proposals, or nothing . ARF Dashnaktsutyun is against the Madrid principles. We believe that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be resolved only through mutual and equal compromises ", Kiro Manoyan said.