22:35, 12 May 2007

Safrastyan: Armenia can quit Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations

Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, thinks that Azerbaijan is breaking the diplomatic ethics, and, therefore, it is senseless to speak about any progress in the negotiations on settling the conflict, the PanARMENIAN.Net reports.

"Armenia can temporarily quit in a unilateral way the negotiation process on settling the Karabakh conflict. We can do it quite comfortably since there are all the necessary preconditions and reasons, first of all, a non-constructive position of Azerbaijan in relation to the peaceful process," Mr. Safrastyan has stated at a press conference in Yerevan. According to the expert, "in such circumstances, the continuation of negotiations is practically impossible."

Meanwhile, as the "Caucasian Knot" has already informed, Vardan Oskanyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, hopes for achieving an agreement with Azerbaijan on the Karabakh problem.