YEREVAN. May 17 (Interfax) - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has declared Yerevan's aspiration for a peaceful outcome of the Karabakh conflict.
"Each side which comes to a meeting pursues its own goals. Our goal was to find out whether the negotiations had really reached an impasse and there was no other way but war or we could still resolve the problem with lesser losses," Sargsyan told the Armenian media in an interview on his way back to Yerevan from Vienna.
"On the whole, my colleagues and I are satisfied with the results of the meeting. There is no need to go into details, considering a number of circumstances. [Azerbaijani President Ilham] Aliyev assured that his country and he personally did not plan to resolve certain issues by means of military operations," the Armenian president said.
"This is good, but it inspires little faith. Such conversations have taken place many times but, in fact, the agreement has not been complied with for several years. However, we have no right to be guided solely with our assumptions or prognoses, because a war is not the best solution," Sargsyan said.
"We shall see how it goes. Anyway, we are prepared for any outcome. Indeed, it is our wish to have a peaceful outcome," the Armenian president said.
He also noted that a new meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was discussed in Vienna. "We made a constructive proposal. There was talk of the OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen's approval of monitoring for the purposes of maintaining the truce regime, so we proposed to approve that monitoring before our meeting. It would be a constructive approach exhibited by the sides," Sargsyan said.