Riga stands for peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers stated at a joint press conference with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Riga.

“Latvia supports a peaceful resolution to the conflict merely through negotiations,” Zatlers stated, stressing the Minsk Group provides guarantees for a peaceful solution to the problem.  The Latvian President emphasized any actions leading to the escalation of the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone are unacceptable to Riga.