RA FM MARKED PROGRESS IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net - A new field of negotiations has opened for Armenia and Azerbaijan and now we have something to say and do, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in his interview with the Public Television of Armenia. In his words, the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents pointed out to the necessity of talks to be held by the FMs, though before the Warsaw meeting Vartan Oskanian said that the agenda of the FMs has been already exhausted. Presently the Armenian Minister notes that such necessity has emerged. "The progress achieved during the Aliyev-Kocharian meeting is included in the circle our principal approaches", he said stressing that with these words he tried to response to the statement by Elmar Mamedyarov regarding "Armenia's readiness to return seven Azeri regions. In his words he said it to dispel the idea that the progress refers to the return of territories. As the Minister noted, one of the fundamental positions of the Karabakh conflict settlement is the inadmissibility of the status of an enclave for Karabakh. According the Armenian FM, the issue consists of 4 principal elements, these being the status, territories, refugees and security. "We are holding negotiations on each of these items. On some of them community of positions can be observed, the others present serious discrepancies", Vartan Oskanian said.