YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 23, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian side has never avoided the talks and various meetings over the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan told reporters on November 23, reports “Armenpress”.

“The only expectation was that such meetings to be productive. And we can judge on the effectiveness from the perspective that up to now there is no progress in the negotiation process. Moreover, at the moment it is impossible to expect progress as long as the agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg are not implemented”, the Deputy FM said.

He said it is impossible to expect progress in the negotiation process as long as there is a threat of war, as long as there is no trust between the sides, as long as there are fires, provocations in the line of contact.  

“This is the reality that has been recorded in Vienna after the April war and talks are necessary to hold on this path in order for the 1994 termless ceasefire agreement to come into force. I would like to recall that the idea of installing investigative mechanisms for incidents in the line of contact is not a new. It is Azerbaijan’s international obligation since there was already a talk on this mechanism in the 1995 trilateral agreement. It is obvious every ceasefire must include that element in order for the ceasefire to be maintained”, Shavarsh Kocharyan said.