Question: Mr. Kocharyan, today one of the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan made some statements on the process of settlement of the Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) issue. Are those statements well grounded?

Answer: When Azerbaijan will be ready to return the occupied regions of Nagorno Karabakh and recognize the independence of the NKR, when it will abandon medieval thinking and behavior, then Baku can ask the NKR to held discussion on the issues of mutual interest.