Matt Bryza: Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia should take courageous steps

In his interview to BBC radio station the US co-chair said about what Armenia and Azerbaijan should do to complete the basic principles:

"The basic principles define the final settlement of the conflict, frames of its settlement. This will create balance and fair conditions for stimulating the process, considering mechanisms of provision of security for both ethnic groups of the region, return of lands, return of internally displaced persons to the places of their residence that also includes the development of mechanisms for definition of the political status of the disputable area.

Thus, currently several specific moments are at the stage of settlement and their settlement will allow to generalize the frames of the completion of what we call basic principles.

Yet, I cannot say anything about these unagreed moments as I should create conditions for the presidents to hold talks freely. The presidents need to make courageous steps.

In the coming months, we must attain definite results. We must reach a significant progress on Nagorno Karabakh. I think this progress is close and I hope that we will see it during the meeting of President Sargsyan and President Aliyev next month".

/Tert.am/