Austrian President Visits Armenia, Discusses Karabagh Issue

Minsk Group co-chairing countries, urging the parties to maintain the ceasefire regime and underlining that the conflict should be settled on the basis of the principles of the Helsinki Final Act, namely non-use of force or the threat of force, the right of peoples to self-determination and territorial integrity.

“We are ready to move forward on the basis of those principles, and the sooner the issue is settled, the better. The rapid resolution of the issue stems from the inter- ests of the peoples of Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh. I think the international

community has had an opportunity to get convinced of this,” the president stated.

“While formally agreeing to the three above-mentioned principles, Azerbaijan actually only accepts one of them – ter- ritorial integrity, rejecting the princi- ples of the right of peoples to self-deter- mination and the peaceful settlement of conflicts,” Sargisian said, emphasizing that the conflict will be solved only when the parties are ready to accept all of the above-mentioned principles.

Fischer accompanied with Armenian Foreign affairs minister Eduard Nalbandian and Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan on June 26 visited the Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims Tsitsernakaberd.

Armenpress reports that he put flow- ers at the memorial and with a minute of silence stood to honor the memory of the victims of the Genocide. Then Fischer visited the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute of National Academy of Science of Armenia where he got acquainted with the documents about the Armenian Genocide. He signed the guest book, “I don’t find words to describe the great human tragedy which happened to the Armenian nation.”