On February 16, Vice-Speaker of RA NA Arevik Petrosyan and representatives of NA parties met with Kazakhstan's delegation, headed by OSCE Chairman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev.

During the meeting, Petrosyan attached importance to Armenia-Kazakhstan and Armenia-OSCE cooperation. Vice-speaker also commended the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group aimed at peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, in particular focusing on the principle of self-determination.

In turn, Kanat Saudabayev stressed his visit is aimed to become familiar to political forces' positions over Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, since only goodwill and mutual concessions help to resolve the conflict.

According to the Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary group Aram Safaryan , the Karabakh conflict should be resolved based on three international principles, giving particular importance to the right of self-determination.

The head of the ARFD parliamentary group Vahan Hovhannisyan , proposed OSCE to hold monitoring of democratic institutions in Karabakh, which would be the best step towards the conflict resolution.

According to the head of the Heritage parliamentary group Stepan Safaryan , the recognition of Nagorno Karabakh independence is inevitable. He emphasized the importance to include Karabakh in negotiations, otherwise the final decision would not be reached.

The issue should be resolved only by peaceful means, OSCE Chairman said, press service of the National Assembly of Armenia reported.