Member of the International Coordinating Committee of World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations,” Aram Sargsyan said it would have been expedient to convene a new OSCE Minsk peace conference to record a progress in the Karabakh conflict settlement.

A political resolution of the conflict has no prospects, Sargsyan told Yerevan-hosted conference titled “CSTO and South Caucasus: Regional Peace and Security Perspectives.”

“The parties to the conflict have polar stances on the main aspect of the Karabakh conflict – legal recognition of NKR, while none of them wants to make concessions in this matter. Thus, we assume that a new OSCE Minsk peace conference could consider amendment of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen’s mandate, providing them with powers to solve the Karabakh conflict with usage of all variants of the settlement – legal, political, economic integration, maintenance of status-quo - except for the military way,” said Sargsyan.

Sargsyan believes that definition of the new essence of Co-Chairmen’s mandate is the only solution that would allow reaching a final settlement of the problem as a whole based on norms and principles of the international law. “As for stationing of international peacekeepers in the conflict zone, one should not forget that Iran has a 104km-long border with NKR and it will not tolerate their presence,” concluded Sargsyan.