YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS. No preconditions were put on the establishment of the monitoring regime in the line of contact, the Armenian President said this to reporters while returning to Yerevan from Vienna.

“There has not been any precondition on the installation of the monitoring. I do know what kind of Azerbaijanis insist on the withdrawal of troops and then installing the monitoring, but I deal with the President of Azerbaijan who did not announce about it there”, Serzh Sargsyan said.

Concerning the negotiations, the Armenian President stated that they did not talk about the negotiations. “We talked about the possible meeting to be held in the future, but we did not talk about other conditions. We talked about the maintenance of the ceasefire regime. The President of Azerbaijan, looking at the Co-Chairs and me, says that we have initiated the April events. I am confident that you know what my answer was. The President of Azerbaijan today repeated ten times that Azerbaijan only wants to solve the issue with peaceful means. It is not a good situation, but the real situation is this”, the Armenian President said.