Speaking at the press conference in Astana, reelected President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev expressed willingness to mediate the Karabakh conflict. "Interethnic conflicts between neighbors bring about only grief and unhappiness for people. Therefore, I am ready to take part in the settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia", he said. This revelation of the Kazakh President is quite unexpected since Kazakhstan can hardly be called a neutral country in the Karabakh problem.