/Tert.am/ - Making a speech at today’s governing Republican Party of Armenia convention, RA President Serzh Sargsyan, among other issues, referred to the process of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Armenia-Turkey relations.

On both issues, the Armenian president reiterated his previously announced position: noting that Armenia would like to settle the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh through peaceful negotiations.

“Armenia is for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through negotiations, though we will not allow any sort of encroachment whatsoever on the matter and we are prepared to respond to any such assault through the toughest measures,” noted Sargsyan.

The president once again emphasized that settlement of the conflict is an extremely complex process, and it might take years to reach a final settlement.

“Though in conflict settlement’s refuge today, I am filled with hope that we can reach a logical conclusion within a reasonable timeframe. As with Turkey, so with Azerbaijan, we consider our national and state interests to be above everything else, and we are going to be decisive in our relations, in the issue of seeing this process through till the end,” said Sargsyan, adding that “gone are the times of people being colonized, living on their own land.”

“We have firmly announced to the world, that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement must anchor man and Nagono-Karabakh people on the collective will of the reflection of independence. Only in that case can the solution be long-lasting, feasible and peaceful. The agreement among all the parties of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must, in one package, include the solutions of all the issues and those mechanisms, inscribed by international requirements, which guarantee the implementation of those solutions,” concluded Sargsyan.

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