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Source: RFE/RL Newsline, April 12, 2001 Returning to Yerevan late on 11 April,
Armenian President Robert Kocharian said that last week's talks
in Key West with his Azerbaijani counterpart Heidar Aliev and
the three OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen were "hard but constructive,"
Reuters and RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. He added that by
meeting separately with the two presidents, the co-chairs chose
"the right work style at the right moment." Kocharian
said he believes that the new peace proposal that the co-chairmen
are now working on will be based on the "package" principle,
meaning that it will simultaneously resolve all contentious issues.
He also predicted that it will respect the three key points on
which Yerevan insists: that the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic should not be vertically subordinated to Baku, together
with concrete security guarantees for the disputed enclave and
an overland link between the NKR and Armenia. Kocharian dodged
questions on when NKR representatives might join the peace talks
and whether the possibility of a territorial exchange between
Armenia and Azerbaijan was discussed in Key West, according to
Noyan Tapan. |
