BAKU. - Presidents Obama, Medvedev and Sarkozy were clear about their hopes for this meeting when they made their statement in Deauville, saying that now is the time to resolve the conflict, to finalize the sheet on “basic principles”, to provide the foundation for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza stated in an interview with Trend News.

“And they also made clear our long standing view that there is really no settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that will last other that a peaceful negotiated one,” he said.

“So the parties didn’t reach that breakthrough to finalize the basic principles just now in Kazan. But my understanding is the negotiations are continuing, the process continues, and the sides will meet again and will try to work through the issues that are remaining on the table,” Bryza said.

“The support of our President I think is very important: President Obama as you know called President Aliyev and President Sargsyan just a couple of days before Kazan. President Medvedev has been involved personally and President Sarkozy also made his hopes and his commitment to moving this process forward just before Kazan. So I would anticipate that sort of Presidential level support will continue,” he said.