YEREVAN. – The recent Vienna meeting showed that it is hard to expect any progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks, without ceasefire and the establishment of confidence measures.

Shavarsh Kocharyan, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, told the aforesaid to reporters after Thursday’s Cabinet session.

In his words, otherwise, it will be virtually impossible to expect progress in these talks.

The deputy FM recalled that Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office, had made proposals toward enlarging his staff and their mandate toward finding a resolution to the Karabakh conflict.  

“Of course, this is an important but an insufficient condition,” added Kocharyan. “The negotiations should proceed on the other matters, too.”