YEREVAN. Oct 23 (Interfax) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stands ready to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to discuss the Karabakh settlement.
"No official invitation was extended, but I understood that both Aliyev and I reaffirmed our readiness to meet and try to reach a diplomatic solution to this situation. Of course, I'm ready, but prerequisites are required for this meeting to be fruitful," Pashinyan said in an interview with Interfax on Thursday.
A meeting may take place in Moscow, he said.
"This implies an ultimate settlement of the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh," Pashinyan said in reply to a question about what substantive Karabakh talks imply from Yerevan's point of view.
"This is the observance of the right and the protection of the right for self-determination of the Nagorno-Karabakh people," the Armenian prime minister said in reply to a specifying question as to whether a settlement implies Nagorno-Karabakh's independence and joining Armenia.