The Kazakh president intends to invite the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to Astana for talks on Karabakh, an Armenian MP has said.
Aram Safaryan, head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, said that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev intended to invite the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders for talks on Karabakh in Kazakhstan’s capacity as chairman-in-office of the OSCE.
“We held negotiations with [Kazakh Foreign Minister] Saudabayev in Yerevan and Vienna. Kazakhstan really thinks that it is a positive constructive resource for direct influence on the process. It seems that the Kazakh president will invite the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to Astana for talks,” Safaryan told a news conference on Monday.
He said that the Kazakh initiative was being discussed but the dates were not yet known.
“We hope that Kazakhstan may have a positive influence on progress in the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations as our colleague in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, as a post-Soviet country with a similar history to Armenia and as a country that occupies the high post of OSCE chairman-in-office,” Safaryan said.
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