YEREVAN. - Nagorno-Karabakh must be a party to the negotiations, an issue that the Armenian side has always raised, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian stated Thursday at the discussion regarding the report on the republic’s State Budget Performance for 2015.

“I’ll open the brackets, which we may not have opened. I assure you that all the working documents discussed and deposited with the [OSCE] Secretary General in Vienna in closed packages include a point on that Nagorno-Karabakh must take part in the talks and that the preparation and signing of any document is impossible without Nagorno-Karabakh," Nalbandian said.