Ambassador: Washington hopes Kazan meeting will lead to Karabakh resolution
BAKU – The U.S. hopes that the Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will lead the parties to resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza told journalists in Baku on Friday.
"The presidents of the co-chair countries already in Deauville statement let know what they expect from the meeting in Kazan. The statement noted that the conflict should be resolved peacefully, the military option is not acceptable here," the ambassador said.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will meet in Kazan in late June. This will be the ninth tripartite meeting.
The presidents of the Minsk Group co-chairing countries made a joint statement on Karabakh conflict at the G8 summit in Deauville, France on May 26. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to demonstrate the political will and to finalize the work over the basic principles of [the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict] during the upcoming summit in June.
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