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YEREVAN. - The position of the Armenian side on the current situation round the Karabakh conflict settlement is the following: the esumption of real talks parallel to the implementation of agreements reached earlier will not lead to any results.

Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) MP Mikayel Melkumyan stated the aforementioned at the traditional briefings at the National Assembly (NA) Friday.

He recalled that after the April military actions the issue was not the talks but insurance of conditions for their resumption.

“This meant establishment of relevant mechanisms for revealing the violators of the ceasefire regime at the Line of Contact. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been done. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated correctly that it is first necessary to ensure the implementation of the reached agreements. How is it possible to hold talks and violate the ceasefire regime at the Contact Line an hour later?” Melkumyan said.

Aliyev’s criminal regime does everything to distract the attention of its own society, the MP stressed. “Apparently, the OSCE Minsk Group wants to show a result, but our position is the following: this will not lead to any results,” Melkumyan added.

The heads of the delegations of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states—Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and French FM Jean-Marc Ayrault —adopted a statement on Thursday. They called on Baku and Yerevan to honor the agreements reflected in the Joint Statements of the 16 May Summit in Vienna and the 20 June Summit in St. Petersburg.  “We welcome the sides’ progress in implementing the exchange of data on missing persons under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross.  We urge the parties to remove all remaining obstacles to expanding the mission of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and to make progress on a proposal to establish an OSCE investigative mechanism.  The proposals should be implemented together with the immediate resumption of negotiations on a settlement.  We would like to reiterate our call to the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to demonstrate flexibility and to return to the negotiation table with the firm aim of moving toward a sustainable peace on the basis of the current working proposals.  Unless progress can be made on negotiations, the prospects for renewed violence will only increase, and the parties will bear full responsibility,” the statement reads, in part. 

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