Success of Karabakh talks depends on parties' rhetoric - president of Armenia
YEREVAN. Nov 30 (Interfax) - The success of the negotiations on Karabakh depends on the reduction of the level of tension on the line of contact of the Armenian and Azeri troops, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said.
"I think it is necessary to reiterate that the success of the negotiations essentially depends on how we will prepare our peoples for peace, how we will be able to stop the negative rhetoric and reduce the tensions on the line of contact," Sargsyan said at the Vilnius summit on Friday.
Sargsyan said Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh now refrain from statements and steps that may destabilize the situation, the Armenian presidential press service told Interfax.
The president of Armenia also gave positive marks to his meeting with his Azeri counterpart Ilhom Aliyev in Vienna on November 19.
"Although it is too early to speak about the results, the fact of the meeting is a positive thing in itself," Sargsyan said.