Before determination of the final status, Nagorno Karabakh will get a transitional status, which must be fixed at international level, according to Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian.

“This was offered by Minsk Group co-chairs in 2009 in Prague but Azerbaijan did not accept it,” the Minister said at London International Institute for Strategic Studies, commenting on Azerbaijan statements perverting the idea of future status of Nagorno Karabakh.

The Minister added that the transitional status means “status quo plus”, that is, all Karabakh has today plus international recognition.

Touching upon the statement of his Azeri counterpart saying that it is senseless to spend time for coordination of main principles and it will be right to commence development of peace treaty, Edwadrd Nalbandian noted that this is a repetition of Azeri’s old song.

The Minister also reminded the co-chairs’ opinion supposing that if Azerbaijan cannot agree on fundamental principles, how it may carry out talks on peace treaty development. According to the Armenian Minister, this approach of official Baku is an evident desire of Azerbaijan to ruin the latest years’ process of negotiations.

“The sooner Azerbaijan gets disabused of illusion and stops spending petrodollars to prepare for new adventure, the more apparent will be the perspective of the conflict settlement, the Head of Foreign Ministry concluded.