US diplomat: Azerbaijan, Armenia are `not ready yet` for conflict settlement
Azerbaijan and Armenia ``are not ready yet`` to solve their long-standing conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, Matthew Bryza, a former US co-chair of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group, was quoted by Azerbaijani news agency APA as saying.
Bryza, a former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, told reporters that the Nagorno Karabakh problem will find its solution, stressing that the leaders of both countries have a framework agreement on their tables. He continued, ``One needs to have four to five or six important conditions to solve the issue. The presidents of both countries must undertake the solution of the problem and trust each other. This is a great political risk, because Azerbaijani and Armenian societies are not ready to make a decision for the solution of this problem. Either both societies must change their views or the presidents must undertake great political risk.``
Nagorno Karabakh has been occupied by Armenian armed forces since a cease-fire was signed in 1994 following a war that killed an estimated 30,000 people and ousted up to one million Azerbaijanis from their homes.
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