Lebanon is ready to contribute to Karabakh conflict settlement

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Lebanon is ready to contribute to Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as to share its experience with interested parties. Lebanese Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Minister Fawzi Salloukh is quoted by a REGNUM correspondent as stressing in particular that war would be of benefit for no conflict parties and the problem should be settled exclusively in a peaceful way, taking into consideration interests of the conflict parties. At the same time, he stressed that there is no religious implication in case of Nagorno Karabakh conflict – “landed property is concerned here.”

In his turn, Vardan Oskanyan stated that there were no contacts yet with Azerbaijani side. “OSCI Minsk Group US co-Chair Matthew Bryza is going to visit the region soon; may be, it will cause some developments,” the minister stressed. Mentioning mediators’ statements, in which they pointed out that their imagination had been exhausted, Vardan Oskanyan stressed that it did not mean that the settlement process was over and the mediators rejected it. “The parties themselves should demonstrate activity. The document proposed by the co-chair is acceptable for those, who really want to achieve settlement based on compromise. We hope, Baku will recommence negotiations, assuming the document as a basis,” the Armenian foreign minister stressed. At the same time, Vardan Oskanyan stressed that it was inapprorpiate to organize meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in the framework of G8 summit in St. Petersburg. “Had the parties achieved serious progress in Bucharest, the co-chairs would have thought about conducting such meeting. However, I do not exclude that summit participants will surely mention Karabakh problem,” Vardan Oskanyan stated.