President Sargsyan: Azerbaijan Must Accept All Three Principles of Helsinki Final Act for Karabakh Settlement

15:34, June 26, 2012

Visiting Austrian President Heinz Fischer today declared in Yerevan that the Karabakh issue cannot be solved through force and violence.

President Fischer made the statement at a joint press conference with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan after the two leaders met at the RA Presidential Palace.

"We see no alternative to the peaceful talks within the scope of the OSCE Minsk Group," President Sargsyan said, adding that "Azerbaijan's recent bellicose statements create tension both at the line of contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan and at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border."

"The provocations of the past weeks have claimed the lives of servicemen, and the situation remains tense," the Armenian president noted.  Read more... (300 words)

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