YEREVAN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua)-- Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan reiterated Armenia's determination to reach an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan at a joint press conference on Thursday.
The conference was held after the closed-door talks with visiting Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
Armenia is for the settlement of the conflict "based on the norms and principles of international law, provisions of the UN (United Nations) Charter, including refraining from the threat or use of force in international relations, territorial integrity, sovereign equality, and self-determination of peoples," said Sargsyan.
Sargsyan's announcement came amid a statement made on Wednesday by the American Acting Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk Group, an international body with a mandate to broker a peaceful and negotiated resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The American diplomat proposed six major steps toward the settlement of the issue, including the return of certain territories to Azerbaijan, an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh and a future plebiscite on the final legal status of the disputed territory based on mutual consent.
