Serzh Sargsyan: "Our key task in the settlement is to persuade the Azerbaijani party through negotiations that recognition of Nagorno Karabakh people's right to self-determination is inevitable"

"During our meeting with President of Turkey Abdullah Gul we decided not to leave the problems of our countries to next generations," President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said at a reception organized by the Armenian Embassy in the USA, Permanent Representation of Armenia at the UN and by leading Armenians organizations of America, the presidential press-service reports.

He said he believes that it is time for settling the problems in Armenian-Turkish relations and he is ready for it and his Turkish counterpart is also ready to make difficult decisions.

"All this allows me to hope that we will not continue the way leaving the problems to next generation and will not invent mechanisms of dragging-out", he said.

The president mentioned that after the negotiations in Yerevan Turkish foreign minister declared that Turkey is ready to look back to the past, and face the resolutions by the supposed commission.

He also highlighted the readiness of the Turkish president to contribute to settling the Karabakh conflict. "We have always welcomed any assistance that had favorable impact on the mediation of OSCE Minsk Group and the initiative of the Turkish president may prove such. Our key task in the settlement is to persuade the Azerbaijani party through negotiations that recognition of Nagorno Karabakh people's right to self-determination is inevitable," the President of Armenia said.

/ArmInfo/