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U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State: "Yerevan, Baku should set Karabakh settlement time"

08 March 2006 [10:27] - TODAY.AZ
The leaders of parties to the conflict should set the Karabakh settlement time, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza for European and Eurasian Affairs said in Yerevan on Tuesday.

He said the United States was ready to do its best for the soonest Karabakh settlement, Itar-Tass reports.

He disagreed with the opinion that the recent meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in the Paris suburb of Rambouillet was a failure. The sides were close to an intermediate agreement in Rambouillet, and their inability to do that does not mean that the process is in a deadlock, the diplomat said. He said that final steps are always very difficult and require determination of the leaders.

Normalization between Armenia and Turkey will become a necessary and natural consequence of the Karabakh settlement agreement, the official said. He said that normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations was discussed at every meeting of American administration members in Yerevan and Ankara.

Bryza said that his Tuesday meeting with Armenian President Robert Kocharyan was very constructive.

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